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PM Says Mayor Bradley Should Have Conferred First
posted (September 9, 2016)
And so now while the Chamber is supporting the PUP's motion for a Senate Inquiry, and the opposition is lobbying the churches to do the same, you could say they're just following the lead of UDP Mayor Darrell Bradley who dramatically broke ranks with his party on Wednesday when he also endorsed the PUP Senate Inquiry. That caused a lot of blowback within the UDP - but today the Prime Minister gave only a mild rebuke: he said the mayor could have at least told him so:...

Daniel Ortiz, 7news
"Will there be any political consequences for that position which he says its principle?"

Rt., Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister of Belize
"I don't know whether there will be political consequences. There will certainly not be any attempt by the party to discipline the mayor. He is entitled to his view, opinions in the society are sharply divided, and I think we have to respect the way he feels and concede that it's a position genuinely held and one that we might have to consider, especially seeing that he has taken such a public stance. What I do, what I do absolutely abhor is the fact that mayor never thought it fit, knowing that Cabinet had taken a position, knowing how prominent an official of the party he is, to let us know that he had difficulties with that position and that in fact he disagreed with the position. I believe that ought to have been the proper way to proceed and I regret that he did not have the courtesy, he did not treat the party with the respect that I think was required. But that's done and dusted."

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