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CITCO Hit With Huge Judgment
Fri, October 17, 2014
You must pay Belize Waste Control half a million dollars. That's what the Supreme Court told Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley today in a default judgment order after the sanitation company sued City Council for arrears.

Viewers may remember that in April, BWC took the Mayor to court for arrears and they retained Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay as the attorney. The last we heard was that both sides had arrived at an out-of-court resolution.

Well, it seems that things didn't work out as planned, and as you've heard the Mayor lament many times on the news, there is nothing to be done to stop the council from falling way behind on their weekly arrears with the company to clean up the city. This more than likely was once such instance, and this time the sanitation company pursued its rights in court.

Because City Hall did not offer any defense, Waste Control won by default, and the court has ordered that they be paid 525 thousand dollars. Every day the Council fails to pay, the amount increases by 86 dollars as interest.

We asked the mayor for comment but got no response….

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