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"Fawda" Protests Medical University In Ladyville
posted (April 17, 2013)
In the past three years, the American Global University School of Medicine has moved from Belmopan to San Pedro and now to Ladyville. The Ladyville move was made earlier this month – and professional one man protestor Phillip Fawda Henry was out on the Airport Road to welcome them today. Here's what we found out.

Jules Vasquez reporting
Looking at the website of the AGUSM, it has every appearance of a legitimate operation and a going concern.

And the website even boasts of a new campus. Clicking through we saw pictures of the facility located close to the airport.

Phillip Fawda Henry - Protesting 'American Global' Medical University
"What is going on behind this is all a 'hocus-pocus' - a scheme. This American Global has been taking money from people and stating that they have the right resource in here to have these people who are coming into the country to study to be doctors and these people are not getting what they paid for. If you could see right next to me here that from when I've been here this morning two of them left immediately and chained this gate up. So I am asking the Prmie Minister to investigate on American Global. What is going on up here? If they would have been doing the right thing the gate wouldnt have been chained. Right or wrong? I am here to see that this country to get the right medical training facility in order for our country to move forward. American Global is not one of them. They have been moved from Belmopan to San Pedro and now up here in Ladyville. Why are they hiding? What do they have to hide? I come up here mulitple times Jules. This here is a building that is closed up and they are saying it is working to train people from students from abroad; it is not so. If you look behind me they don't even have people doing ground work here but they rushed out and chained this gate and left. Not a student was here. All the time I have been coming here there hasn't been any student here and now there is ghost in the buliding Jules. Be careful you might get haunted. The only person here is me and you camera people and in that building there are ghotsts. On the internet it's all fake and we need to get into this."

Jules Vasquez
"Why are you sweating fever Fawda? This isn't within your perview."

Phillip Fawda Henry
"Jules, I am saying my program is 'do the right thing' pedestrian crossing. Whatever is pertaining to this country then I am doing the right thing. This is a part of our country. If you will have an American Global coming to our country and have doctors from abroad and working here and students from abroad coming here and they are not doing the right thing; they are not part of us, they are not Belizean. Why are they here?"

We tried shouting and even banging on the gate, but there was nothing coming form within.

Except a man in a suit who jumped into this taxi van and kept running from us. Someone even called the police on us.

We even tried calling the local number on their website, but only got an answering machine – which cut off before we could even leave a message.

The university sent out a release today - but not to channel 7. From what we have been told, it says that its students are out on clinical rotations. They add that both campuses are being renovated.

It says "All current AGUSM Basic Science students are enrolled completing their fifth semester within our contracted U.S. teaching hospital in Orlando, Florida and the AGUSM Clinical Science students are completing six semesters of clinical rotations within our contracted teaching hospitals throughout the U.S. and the U.K."

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