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The Belize Times
Established 1957
The Truth Shall Make You Free
11 JUNE 2017 | ISSUE NO: 5049
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BARROW’S BIGGEST SCREWUP Ashcroft Submits Another Bill for BTL Thursday, 08 June 2017 On the 28th of June, a couple weeks from today, yet another payment for the seizure of BTL, negotiated in secret in 2015 by Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Michael Ashcroft, will come due. Barrow travelled to Miami where he signed an agreement, allegedly drafted by his own law firm, giving Ashcroft a blank check in return for the matter not going to final judgment by the Caribbean Court of Justice. That blank check amounted to more than a half-a-billion-dollar debt for the Belizean people, guaranteed by Barrow. In the agreement, he even committed to paying half in ten days and half in a year – June 28, 2017. Of course, the Prime Minister argued that a $557M debt on our backs was exactly what we needed, and it was a great thing, an amazing thing, a “vindication” of
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ANOTHER DOUBLE HOMICIDE IN COROZAL
POLICE COVER UP SEXUAL
ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST SENIOR COPS
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OPEN WARFARE IN CABINET
NO LEADS IN JERSON CARBALLO MURDER Pg. 2
DID MoE MANIPULATE PSE RESULTS? Pg. 6