Musa will respond to Senate report soon

Just back from a regional summit in Panama, Prime Minister Musa also addressed the issue of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Social Security.

Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
?I was hoping to have gone through it completely on my recent visit to Panama, on the plane, but I haven?t concluded my reading of it or indeed my analysis of it. But rest assured that I will be responding very shortly, hopefully by next week, on the recommendations made by the Senate Committee.?

In other news from Belmopan, this afternoon Minister responsible for Free Zones, Mark Espat, declined comment regarding statements made by a former member of the Corozal Free Zone board other than to state that he is quote “comfortable that the elections were free and fair and held according to the law”. On Wednesday’s newscast, the National Free Zone Authority’s Deputy Chairman, Luke Espat, announced that the N.F.Z.A. declared the election of private sector representatives for the Corozal Free Zone held on Monday to be null and void. Winston Smiling, a former member of the board, maintains that he was denied the right to use proxy forms in the election and as a result, received the least number of votes.