Hulse: S.S.B. is part of larger governance issue

We spoke to him in the early afternoon–before learning of the Shoman resignation–but Investigating Committee Chairman, Senator Godwin Hulse did not hesitate to offer his opinion about what should happen next. For him, it’s all about good governance.

Godwin Hulse, Senator
?The next stage is of course to have the judiciary also accept and work on them as he has suggested and that is the D.P.P. That will then take us into stage two, which means that we could remove people from Social Security and say well look, you messed up, you shouldn?t really be handling the people?s funds. Go to the D.P.P., and say research all these documents. The mortgages where we think there is criminal wrongdoing and tell us if it is so and if it is so then move ahead.?

Janelle Chanona
?Will the Senate committee be acting as a watchdog to make sure these things do get implemented??

Godwin Hulse
?Janelle there is no more committee. At the end of presentation, the committee was disbanded. So we are just regular senators. But I certainly and my colleagues continue to be vigilant. You know I have always been on the reform trail and there is no turning back on that with me. So I?m going to be pushing as much as I can to see to it that things do happen. The whole idea is to enhance the governance in Belize. That is the thing, the bottom line. Enhance the governance, ensure that people?s funds are well managed and accounted for. People, who are hired and paid well, do their job. That is the bottom line and if we can achieve that we would have gone very far in this country.?

Hulse’s fellow committee members were Senators Dickie Bradley, Moises Chan and Rene Gomez.