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Hon. “Boots”, His Ministry, And the Yellow Building
posted (November 9, 2016)

We also asked Minister Martinez about the Belize City Office of the Department of Human Services.  That office has moved from Regent Street to the corner of Cemetery Road and the Western Highway right in that big yellow building rumoured to be owned by the Minister of Social Services, the same Boots Martinez.  So is he housing his ministry’s office in his own building?  When we asked him today, he said, “not quite:â€￾

Jules Vasquez
"Is the ministry of Department of Social Services renting from its minister?"

Hon. Anthony "Boots" Martinez - Minister of Human Development
"The building at the roundabout, that building fortunate for me that building is for my daughter."

Jules Vasquez
"Is that sir a conflict of interest if..."

Hon. Anthony "Boots" Martinez - Minister of Human Development
"How will it be conflict of interest? I have a product."

Jules Vasquez
"A lot of people have that product it's called rental space."

Hon. Anthony "Boots" Martinez - Minister of Human Development
"That is right I don't know how much people have a product like that with the quality and location and so.."

Jules Vasquez
"Beauty is in the eye..."

Hon. Anthony "Boots" Martinez - Minister of Human Development
"I don't have no difficulty with that; nothing illegal, nothing immoral."

Jules Vasquez
"Is it a process that you involved in fi say aye whe deh inna this old Urbina building we need fi relocate, I got a spot?"

Hon. Anthony "Boots" Martinez - Minister of Human Development
"Not at all sir, not at all."

Jules Vasquez
"So you are saying they chose that space based on a sober assessment of well we have X being offered for Y rental value or V being offered."

Hon. Anthony "Boots" Martinez - Minister of Human Development
"Well I think the Ministry of Public Service was the ministry involved in that process. Again it was a hard thought in terms of a wanting to deal with it based on but again when I think about it that it is a reasonable stop for the ministry and they were looking for a spot both in terms of where there was parking and space where they could have set up and it's only a temporary rental because the ministry if embarking on putting up through the CDB a building right in front of Channel 7 for the Women's Department; so just a temporary rental."

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