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Hon. Marin Not Moved By Tsunami of Scandals
posted (October 21, 2016)
The Barrow Administration has been trying to keep its head above the tsunami of scandals and shady deals, but a couple party members have gone under. Most prominent among them is Gaspar Vega; he was forced to resign from Cabinet after his son's mega land deal was revealed. Well, Prime Minister Dean Barrow has already expressed sadness and regret following Vega's departure and today we met fellow Norteno, Minister of Health Pablo Marin and he too shared some kind words about his colleague. Marin also told us that although the party is going through a really damning time right now, all the good the UDP has done will somehow outshine the bad.

Hon. Pablo Marin, Minister of Health
"It is hard for all of us, Gaspar Vega has been a person who has worked hard for the party, he has helped a lot of standard Bearers in their time of campaign and he has been out there with the public, he is a nice person I can say that but I think his decision is more personal than anything once you encounter that, the public will condemn you , they don't see all the good you have done, they don't see all the good you have done , maybe it was a mistake that happened with his son and it is hard for us also, he is my good good friend. We will miss him."

"It will affect us we cannot say no, we just have to be strong, continue our work, the day to day contact with our people."

"If you see the amount of work the UDP has done in the past years, it can show that we are a working group , we give so much to the country, I don't want to bring the past with what the PUP did because we don't want to bring up the past , but what we are doing and what we have done , and I think the Prime Minister is something we can look at whenever one of our minister goes the wrong way, he deals with it, with the Penner situation , he immediately removed him and right now with Gaspar Vega, he is out and with John Saldivar , he is looking at it because he is not playing, in the PUP you can see the same old people there , you see John Briceno , you see Musa, you see Fonseca, now that is the difference with our party."

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