And while we had the mayor, we just had to quiz him on something else. Today it was the more than 40 BML workers who were charged for littering. Their case is scheduled to go back to court tomorrow - even though an undertaking was given to drop all charges. Today, the mayor said, "what charges?":..
Darrell Bradley, Mayor, Belize City
"My understanding is all of that was already done. I gave instructions for that to be done a long time ago, but the procedural aspects of it have to be implemented by our people on the ground, our prosecutors and enforcement officers. So that's something that we had already resolved that we were going to do, and we're working with BML to coordinate the transition, and we're also working with them in relation to finishing up the scope of their contract before we move into a new system."
"We paid them two hundred thousand dollars. That balloon payment was the last day of September, which I think was Thursday or Friday. And we paid them two hundred thousand out of three hundred and fifty thousand we were supposed to pay them and this week we're going to pay them the remaining one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. We're supposed to make a next payment the end of October."
The mayor's assurance that the charges had been dropped sounded less than reassuring, so tomorrow we'll still follow up at Magistrate's Court.
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