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Coro SW’s Hon. Ramirez Says He Will “Instigate” on Bagasse Issue
posted (December 5, 2013)
But Cordel Hyde's re-entry wasn't the only news coming out of the convention. The PUP's Area Representative for Corozal Southwest Ramiro Ramirez took an eyebrow raising position on the bagasse dispute in the cane industry. He said if government doesn't work out a dispute that's agreeable to the cane farmers, he's willing to instigate his people to take a stand:..

Hon. Ramiro Ramirez, Area Representative for Corozal Southwest
"We are just giving him some weeks more and if he doesn't come with an agreement then we are going on a strike. I am going to instigate it to show to the people of Belize that the North is ready."

Cordel Hyde
"I like the suggestion that when the cane farmers are ready to march - the People's United Party will march with them because that is what we have to do. We can't sit back and take it easy. We can't feel like because we won 14 seats and we come that close we will win the next one. It doesn't work that way. You have to show the people that you want it."

Hon. Francis Fonseca
"If the caneros decide to go on strike, the People's United Party will stand shoulder to shoulder with those caneros."

And more than just standing with the cane farmers, the leader of the opposition is willing to take it one step further; he says, if elected, he's willing to nationalize BSI:..

Hon. Francis Fonseca
"If there are problems in this industry, when the People's United Party comes to office after the next elections we will not have any problems with taking back BSI for the people of this country and putting it back in the hands of the cane farmers of the North. We will not have a problem with doing that."

"We will do it the right way, we will do it responsibly and we hope that that does not become necessary. But of it becomes necessary, we are not afraid of doing that."

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