And, we're also investigating land dealings involving a well positioned UDP supporter. Their time may be done but before it was one of the top sidemen to Anthony Boots Martinez got the deal of a lifetime for 2.5 acres of beachfront land. John Pollard scored that for a mere thousand dollars. We first told you about it last week when Belizean Beach was fenced off. Jules Vasquez reports that there's now a stop order on that project:
Parcel 2422, it 's 2.5 acres seafront property purchased by John Pollard in 2020, four months before the election for the sum of just one thousand dollars. That's a very low price for such a prime seafront property - and John Pollard who was known in UDP days as a Boots Martinez operator became the lucky owner.
Such a lucky man that he - or an unnamed investor hired his former boss as a contractor
Jules Vasquez
"Sir, you da di big man. How you turn contractor now?"
Anthony Boots Martinez, Contractor
"How you mean I da contractor? This is my expertise."
But, that expertise did noted him do - as the law requires and file a plan for this building with the Central Building Authority.
On Friday, that body issued a stop order for the ongoing construction work that Martinez is overseeing.
The stop order tells Pollard - as landowner - that he did not submit the plans for the structure to the CBA and does not have a permit to build. The notice warns that if they fail to comply, the Central Building Authority can take measures and institute judicial proceedings as a means of enforcement. When we checked today - work on the structure had stopped.
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