U.D.P. Should Be Ashamed, says PM John Briceño

John Briceño

The Opposition, United Democratic Party, says it will challenge the terminations of about twenty-four terminal workers and other terminations reported across the country.  On George Price Day, the two dozen workers at the Novelo’s Bus Terminal in Belize City were given their walking paper, and a total of sixty employees in the Department of Transport were let go. There are also reports of terminations at the Northern Regional Hospital. The Opposition asserts that these persons were discriminated against because of their political affiliation, but PM Briceño says that the U.D.P.’s case holds no water. PM Briceño says that the U.D.P. should be ashamed of crying wolf because former Prime Minister Dean Barrow made no apologies for firing persons when the U.D.P. became the government.

Prime Minister John Briceño

“They should look at the mirror. They were the worst offenders. They should be ashamed to even bring that up. They suppose to be ashamed and the thing is that we have not got into no time for political victimization. If that was the case, from day one we would have been letting go a lot of people. There are a lot of people in the system that are only there simply because they are U.D.P. supporters. We are trying our best to work with them but if they won’t want to work with us we may have to find ways how we can part way.”

Rodwell Ferguson

Rodwell Ferguson, Minister of Transport

“I guess that is their responsibility as an opposition to do what they want and when they go to court the court will determine if it was so, if it was bad or if it was good.”

Hipolito Novelo

“The criticism, however, is that the P.U.P. is hiring more than what they fired.”

Rodwell Ferguson

“That is absolutely not true because when we recommended some people, and representatives around the country request that some people go back then we tell that person that we can’t take you because we have a limit and so we can’t take you.”