The Prime Minister also used his platform at today's press conference to beat back media reports that Glenn Godfrey had won a 22 million US dollar judgement against the government of Belize.  

Godfrey is suing government in US courts, over an Intelco contract but the PM stressed he hasn’t won, he simply got jurisdiction to have it argued in a US court.

Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow - Minister of Finance
“Godfrey indeed has sued on the basis of another stink agreement made between him and in particular Ralph Fonseca, but presumably the entire PUP administration, over INTELCO, what your boss Michael Ashcroft called the pension plan for the boys. They went asunder and Godfrey, they agreed that Godfrey could sue in the states and so he brought suit in Miami. We challenged that and said: no, you have to come to Belize. The US courts have no jurisdiction because, although Ralph agreed- and Ralph neva had the authority to agree- we won and then he appealed. Ultimately now, the appeal court sent it back to the law court, and what you saw on Friday or Thursday, was a judgment saying that: ok, Godfrey wins on this question of jurisdiction. The government’s initial victory which said this matter can’t be tried in the states at all is reversed; it can go now to trial in the states. Whether he will win and get $22 million or anything is still to be determined after evidence and a full trial.â€￾ 

Reporter: 
“Glen Godfrey said that the government kept the equipment and he referred to some interview in your office, Prime Minister, where the equipment was their visible.â€￾ 

Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow
“Mam, that INTELCO equipment was junk. He’s talking about, if Glen Godfrey says in ‘my office’ there was INTELCO equipment, I still have an INTELCO telephone there. It’s a sort of museum piece because it doesn’t work and it hasn’t worked for years. We have had to put in a completely new system. But again, when I tell you this I am just adding colour and detail to what you all know. That deal was another red light handset; well I tell you, what they say? One must know the next? When Michael Ashcroft could describe the deal in effect as rotten and that it was a pension plan for the boys, you know how bad it really must be. Ultimately if he does win on the merits, I need to say this Adele, he would then, I believe, face the same problem as Michael Aschroft. How you ah collect from me in the states when you know I have nothing there? And if you bring it to Belize then in my view, you are going to lose because I don’t see a Belize court agreeing to enforce that.“