Belize Times March 24, 2013

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The Belize Times THE BELIZE TIMES

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24 MAR 2013

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The Truth Shall Make You Free

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CORRUPTION on steroids Belize City, March 20th, 2013 A newly-registered company purportedly owned by the Government of Belize to manage millions of tax payers’ dollars has already attracted a flock of UDP cronies like vultures preparing to sink their beaks into a fresh carcass. The company, first introduced by Prime Minister Dean Barrow during his lame Budget presentation on March 1st, is called Belize Infrastructure Limited. The purpose of the company is, as the PM claimed, to “create jobs, stimulate demand, purchase private sector material and supplies” in the construction market for and on behalf of the Government. While the issue of monopolising the sector will raise eyebrows among the private sector, the real controversy has to do with the company’s set up, which will see UDP cronies, who are already

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UDP cronies will profit from their involvement in this public company

Guats abandon Oct. 6 referendum

Dangriga Town Council Acquires New Equipment

Barrow’s

Sedi says “Belize [is] prepared to

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accommodate Guatemalans”

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Mystery Guatemalan Foreign Minister Luis Fernando Carrera

Obama cites Belize as Drug Zone

City of Belmopan, March 21, 2013 The Budget Bill for the Fiscal Year 2013/14 has nothing in it for the Belizean people. It does have loads of goodies for

UDP cronies and ghosts. The attention of the BELIZE TIMES was brought to a very mysterious line item in

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