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Mark King's Recording History
posted (February 7, 2014)
And even if that cell phone can't get unto BTL's system, it can probably still be used as a voice recorder, which means that Lake I Area Representative Mark King has no problem. We're told that's his weapon of choice when making secret recordings of party officials and other persons. It's true, he did it with Edmond Castro last week - when best reports tell us Castro had been drinking and had unkind words about his Party Leader and Prime Minister Dean Barrow - words which might have suggested disloyalty. But, it's not the first time King has used the power of record to create trouble in his party. In January of 2011, we spoke to him twice - at the time he had been rejected as a candidate - and reports suggested he was blackmailing his party with secret recordings he had made. Here's what he told us about recordings in January and February:..

January 26, 2011
Hon. Mark King
"Let me tell you why the United Democratic is afraid for me, it's because I have video and audio recordings and proof of everything that I say and do in this party, that is why they are afraid for me. Last night the Part Chairman call me and rail-up with me and I told him that I am recording him, he hurry hang up his phone and that is why they are afraid of me because you will not set me up."

February 21, 2011
Jules Vasquez
"So you will not record people conversation again?"

Mark King, will run for Lake I
"Well Jules absolutely not but in certain we are allowed to record certain meetings and so forth, I don't see anything wrong with that if it is acknowledge by the party or anyone."

The contents of King's most recent Castro still remains secret but we do know it has caused a rift between him and Castro.

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