Belize Youth Movement appalled at debt write-off of Joshua Perdomo

The Belize Youth Movement, which is an arm of the People’s United Party, says it is appalled at the write-off of forty thousand dollars owed to the government by the highly connected Joshua Perdomo.  The motion for the write- off was introduced last Friday at the sitting of the House of Representatives by Prime Minister Barrow. The B.Y.M. says the measure highlights the rampant corruption and nepotism that is rotting at the core of the U.D.P. administration. The B.Y.M. notes that there is no parity in the way the Barrow administration is running the country. It demands the immediate retraction of this write-off and urges the government to be for all and not only for the selected few that have reaped the benefits since 2008.  Perdomo was loaned the money to study but did not return to Belize and despite an agreed plan to pay back, he did not