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PM Has “No Quarrel” With NTUCB Position to Pay In Installments
posted (December 8, 2017)
Back to court - but what the Prime Minister seems to want is something like what the NUTCB proposed, a Special Investigating Body to find out why Belize got stuck with the debt, and nothing to show for it.

The Prime Minister said that - unlike the Chamber of Commerce - he has no quarrel with the NTUCB's resolution - even though they concluded that the 90.6 million dollars must be paid - in installments:...

Jules Vasquez - Reporter
"The NTUCB put out a resolution..."

Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister
"Completely different from the Chamber. That is my quarrel with the Chamber. The NTUCB said the monies should be paid in installments, whether in fact, that is possible by way of the vote of parliament is another matter; but I have, as I made clear to the Chamber of Commerce, I do not quarrel with those people who hold their opinion that monies should be paid. How can I quarrel with them? The fact is that in the normal course a judgment of the court ought to be paid, so that is not an issue. But the NTUCB went on to say, while it is there view that the monies should be paid, pay the money in installments but pay it, but there ought to be some sort of inquiry as to how we got here. I thought their statement, their resolution could not be quarreled with in the least."

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