One other person whose name is in the report is PUP Leader John Briceno. We were the first to inform him of this on Friday, but indeed, it's right there in the passport audit for an application that did not meet requirements. We asked him to explain today.
Jules Vasquez, 7News
"Your name is also in the audit for the passport section for one Dalia Amanda Brikish. What is the situation with that?"
Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition - PUP
"Dalia Amanda Brikish is my wife's aunt. She is a Belizean. She grew up in Orange Walk. She married a man who is a Canadian with origins from Yugoslavia, lived in Belize all his life. She was renewing her passport and according to the report all it says is that I never put the stamp. That's all."
Jules Vasquez, 7News
"The problem is that that is a mistake. Elvin Penner seems to have made on 3 successive occasions - so that by association it makes it suspicious."
Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition - PUP
"Your point is?"
Jules Vasquez, 7News
"My point is that circumstances under which you made that mistake. What it just an oversight?"
Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition - PUP
"Certainly it was an oversight when I signed it, I did not have the stamp with me to put the stamp from my office. That's it."
Jules Vasquez, 7News
"Did she go on and get her passport?"
Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition - PUP
"I have no idea."
The report does to say if she did get her passport.
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