Yesterday during the PM's tour of the south, he told residents of Barranco that the reason the Guatemalan Navy is hostile whenever Belizeans traverse the Sarstoon is because the GAF is involved in the drug trade.
It's a pretty bold statement, and it didn't seem like he had the receipts to back it up. Today, the media asked the UDP chairman - who is a former national security minister - what he thought of these comments.
The very lengthy house sitting finished around 6:00 today and on Monday we'll cover some important parliamentary business which came out of it, mainly the Firearms (Amendment) Bill, 2023 - which takes the sole authority and discretion for gun licensing out of the hands of the commissioner of police and invests it in a 3 person committee.
