Mar 9, 2021 Land Woes in Port Loyola There was a huge fracas over land in the Port Loyola division of Belize City this morning. Ten families are saying that the land they toiled for about a year now, following a verbal agreement with former area rep Anthony “Boots” Martinez, is being taken away by current area rep Gilroy Usher Senior and given to his political cronies. News Five’s Duane Moody reports.
Rosalie Marfield, Resident “From before the COVID-19 we mi deh back yah soh, di clean out and the land done full up and thing. He met us to the back here and he told us that he noh want take no land from we. And ih gone and now, ih di bring this house yah to put pan one ah di land dehn.”