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Hon. Hulse Says He Didn’t Call Anyone
Fri, September 26, 2014
And in one more bit of topical news, today the press asked Godwin Hulse about that rumour that he had intervened to get a relative out of custody after he was caught with some sugar near the Guatemalan Border.

The report is that on Monday 8th September at around 8:00 in the night, alert Cayo police came across 2 trucks loaded with 160 sacks of sugar in the area of the Calla Creek road - which is the major smuggling corridor from Belize into Guatemala.

Police detained 7 men and escorted them to the Benque Viejo border where they were handed over to Customs. Now, Customs told us that indeed they received the men and the cargo, but because it is not an offence to have local sugar in Belize, they could not charge them.

With that they were released. But, here's where the story takes a turn. It turns out that one of the men used to co-manage the Commodities Store, a business in Belmopan, which is owned and operated by Minister Godwin Hulse's family. Hulse told the media today that there's no way he made any call to get anyone free:..

Hon. Godwin Hulse
"The young man in question and his father Ralph Tatum use to be married to my second daughter Crystal. We have no connection whatsoever with that young man or any member of his family in any business whatsoever and if I had i would never pick up the phone to countenance any kind of wrong doing. I've said it a thousand times; it could be my mother, father, brother, sister - it would never come from me. If he was caught with anything wrong doing and the police lock him up and he went to jail - that would have been his plight and I certainly would not have lifted a finger to help or accommodate in any way whatsoever."

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