| PM Acknowledges Court’s Directive on EIA |
| Fri, January 22, 2016 |
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| And, as viewers would remember, the Government - specifically, the Department of Environment and the National Appraisal Committee - lost a case brought against it by the Belize Tourism Industry Association. Justice Courtney Abel found that the Government's Environmental specialists cut corners when they were giving the project the green light. We asked the Prime Minister for his reaction to that judgment, and he was very curt in his appraisal of the judge's findings:
Daniel Ortiz
"A court has ruled that your government in its zeal to get the project underway, the department of the environment and the NEAC took short cuts to environmental regulations..."
Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"There will no doubt - that a lesson that they will learn and hopefully next time around, those mistakes won't be made."
The Government, and the Developer, NCL, are ordered to pay $50,000 in costs incurred by the BTIA in bringing this lawsuit.
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