Last week when it was taking a public pounding for creating the circumstances the led up to the breakup of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association, the Barrow Administration sent out Ministers Wilfred Elrington and Godwin Hulse to put out government's side of the story. So on Wednesday morning, they went to the LOVE FM Morning show where they explained the position at length. The hosts that morning were Ava Diaz Sosa and Carmen Barrow. Absent was regular Nuri Mohammed. He has since said on KREM Radio that he was taken off the show that morning at government's request. Yesterday the media asked the Prime Minister who gave the order:...
Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"Certainly did not ask for Mr. Mohammed to be pulled from hosting the show. No, the two persons, the two ministers in particular, who were the guests that morning are more than equal to Mr. Mohammed, so that would have been pointless, really would have been counterproductive."
Reporter
"So, what ever happened was something internal, because that's what Mr. Mohammed claims."
Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"What does he claimed, that government ask that he be removed?"
Reporter
"He said that he got in touch with you, he sent you a text, because that's the understanding that he had, that it was a request from government."
Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"I responded to his text. You know that I am a fellow who always exercises great courtesy and respect in relation to all the media. Yes, I did respond to him, making it clear that government had made no such request and in deed since he said that he had in fact been removed, I called Mr. Villanueva, to ask that he not be removed or if he had already been given, he obviously had, that he be allowed to host the show. Mr. Villanueva called me a couple of hours later and said that he had tried to arrange this, but Mr. Mohammed indicated he already made other plans."
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