This evening, the Government sent out a release noting that the Ashcroft alliance had yet another hearing in the US Supreme Court in their suits against Belize. That happened yesterday, and the Government release says, quote, "GOB notes with dismay and repugnance, that Ashcroft's Belize lawyer, People's United Party (PUP) Senator Eamon Courtenay, traveled to Washington on Wednesday, February 8, and was together with Ashcroft's U.S. lawyers yesterday at the D.C. hearing." End quote.

The Government's release says that this case concerns the Universal Health Services Hospital Loan which the Musa Administration made secretly with Ashcroft's Belize Bank, on behalf the owners of the hospital.

The release says, quote, "It was in connection with that same deal that the PUP diverted Venezuela grant funds to the people of Belize for a low-income housing scheme, to pay Ashcroft. Those funds were subsequently recovered through official court action by the current administration in Belize." End quote.

For his part in the lawsuits, the Government release calls out Eamon Courtenay. It says, quote, "PUP Senator Courtenay continues unashamedly to be a central part of the Ashcroft Alliance's full court press to get at Belize's assets and topple the country's stability in order to collect on these dastardly awards... GOB further points out that in order to aid and assist the adversary, Senator Courtenay easily and willingly cast aside his Senatorial obligations. He left Wednesday's session of the Special Senate inquiry prematurely, long before the most important witnesses could be heard, so that he could depart to Washington in the service of the Ashcroft Alliance.

GOB characterizes Courtenay's actions as a rank betrayal of the nation. In view of all the evidence of Senator Courtenay's insistent and relentless anti-Belize, pro-Ashcroft stance, the Government of Belize demands the removal of Eamon Courtenay as Senator." End quote.