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PM Says PUP Will Be Handled Just Like BTV
Tue, May 3, 2016
A few hours after that PUP Press Conference, the Prime Minister called his own press conference at the NEMO Conference Room in Belmopan. It was to update the nation that a delegation of Belizean diplomats, minus a representative from the PUP, were in Washington DC. They had already made a jump-start in trying to negotiate a protocol for the Sarstoon River, while the 30-day ban is still in effect.

We'll get to that, but when the Prime Minister took questions from the Press, we asked about the PUP's bold announcement to go to the Sarstoon. He told us they will be treated just like the BTV were this weekend:

Daniel Ortiz
"The People's United Party announced via a press conference that they intend to go to the Sarstoon to put on display the government's intention to enforce this law. Will the state enforce the ban against them?"

Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"The prohibition is meant deter anybody from going to the Sarstoon for purposes other than regular routine day to day activities, such as way to the normal course be taking place. In other words we don't want to stop anybody from Barranco, we don't want to stop any other regular civilian. But if the Opposition's intention is to try to make a political point, then in the normal course the prohibition would apply to them."

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