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Prime Minister Barrow says he was grossly libeled

By on June 22, 2015
Dean Barrow

Dean Barrow

Belmopan, Belize. Monday, June 22, 2015. Prime Minister Dean Barrow this morning issued a statement regarding an audio recording in which the United Democratic Party (UDP) candidate for Stann Creek West “engaged in the spreading of what is a very serious piece of falsehood, a very serious lie that grossly libels me.”

Prime Minister Barrow said in his statement that he is “extremely disappointed” to learn of the recording and that “what is worse, he – from what has been reported to me – appeared not just to have been propagating the libel, but embracing and endorsing it.”

The Prime Minister’s statement says that Hulse “will have to explain this to the public, the Party and his constituents, and he will have to apologize to me. He will also have to suffer the consequences, both political and legal, for his actions.”

The statement further goes on to say that “no one should feel free to repeat Hulse’s libel just because it originated with a UDP candidate.”

It says that those who have already repeated the libel “will have to face the legal consequences.”

The UDP leader and current two-term Prime Minister ends his statement by saying that “I will do all that is necessary to guard the good reputation that I have gathered over the long years I have been in politics and public life.”

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