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It is just 5 months since the General Elections and already one PUP Area Representative is receiving the wrath of those he was supposed to represent. A video forwarded to the Guardian Newspaper shows villagers in the Corozal South West constituency in the village of San Narciso, publicly rejecting the Area Representative for that division, Ramiro Ramírez. They took down his flag and as they did, bitterly complained that he had abandoned them. The show was streamed live and at least one of the residents tore the flag, ripped it to pieces, stomped on it and finally lit it on fire.

Area Representative for the Mesopotamia division in Belize City, Hon. Shyne Barrow, provided some 500 food packages to his constituents on Tuesday April 13. Shyne told The Guardian that the distribution of food items comes after he appealed to some of his family members in the U.S. for him to be able to assist his constituents in these trying times. Barrow explains that the food was distributed to those persons in his constituency who are currently unemployed. The package includes basic commodities like rice, flour, sugar, beans, corn flakes and shortening. While it was not a large package, t...

  His colleague, the member for Mesopotamia, “Shyne” Barrow said that in his view,Espat’s use of the term “boy” was both belittling and racial. He says the exchange people immediately started to contact him following the exchange.   Reporter “Do you think boy is a term of belittlement or it is a term of a racist put down?”   Shyne Barrow, Area Representative, Mesopotamia “Yes, I believe it is both. I got several texts from people in my constituency outraged and they felt that immediately it was racial, coming from him.”   In his own defense, Area Representative for Cayo ...

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  Patrick Faber “Madam Speaker, I will ask you to have him apologize to me.  That remark is completely unparliamentary.”   Julius Espat “Madam Speaker, I will repeat myself, emergency funding of twelve million dollars was spent.  Madam Speaker, twelve million dollars was spent when it was never spent before.  Twelve million dollars built a hundred roads, twelve million dollars hired forty contractors.  Twelve million dollars was spent legally.”   Patrick Faber “Madam Speaker, this member is really out of order and if you refuse to discipline him, if he can call me a boy, what...