Belize City Mayor says Castro cheques scandal is distasteful

Cabinet has issued its official proclamation on the Castro check situation, basically exonerating the U.D.P. Minister of State from all-wrongdoing, but asking the BAA Board to resign. But today, Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley was not as forgiving. Bradley says that the issuing of checks by the BAA to Minister of State Edmond Castro was unfortunate, and to borrow a word from his Prime Minister, distasteful.

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Darrell Bradley, Belize City Mayor

“No government can perform effectively unless there are principles of good administration; unless the people at the very top adhere to the highest levels of ethical conduct. It’s something that is distasteful; it causes a scourge on the administration, on the U.D.P. on a hold. I am a U.D.P.  I want to know that every single member of my party is doing things on behalf of members of the public and we don’t really get side tracked by these allegations. We are doing a lot of work in the city. The central government is doing a significant amount of work both in the city and country wide. And I think that these things really just detract from the good work of the U.D.P. and it is very unfortunate and I think that, that is very distasteful.”