<p><strong>According to the Prime Minister – faced with such an achievement, it is inconceivable to him that anybody would stop to count the actual financial cost. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Prime Minister Dean Barrow </strong></p>
<p><em>“But for those who do let me correct the blatant miscalculations, the wrong songs, the mathematical stupidity that I have heard coming from some quarters. The Government of Belize is now paying seventy million dollars for thirty seven percent of the year that is what it comes down to. We acquired seventy we are giving back thirty-three and we are remaining with thirty-seven percent. That together with the SSB shareholding means that the ownership is like sixty-one percent shareholding. But in terms of the particular thirty-seven percent which the government now gets to keep, we are paying seventy million dollars that is the totality of the cash settlement of their claim for compensation. That is it, that’s all, there are no side deals, there is no hidden cost, that’s the modus operands of this government. And every single provision of the settlement deal and legal acquisition are set out as an attachment to the bill we are now debating, for not just members for the entire world to see. But let me return to the mathematics of the settlement. Seventy million dollars for thirty-seven percent of B.E.L. In return for this seventy million, government actually gets a total value of one hundred and thirty one million dollars because that is what thirty-seven percent of B.E.L. was worth according to the audit financial at the close at the 2014 financial year. What’s there not to like? And what’s there not to get?</em></p>
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<p><strong>Prime Minister Dean Barrow </strong></p>
<p><em>“But for those who do let me correct the blatant miscalculations, the wrong songs, the mathematical stupidity that I have heard coming from some quarters. The Government of Belize is now paying seventy million dollars for thirty seven percent of the year that is what it comes down to. We acquired seventy we are giving back thirty-three and we are remaining with thirty-seven percent. That together with the SSB shareholding means that the ownership is like sixty-one percent shareholding. But in terms of the particular thirty-seven percent which the government now gets to keep, we are paying seventy million dollars that is the totality of the cash settlement of their claim for compensation. That is it, that’s all, there are no side deals, there is no hidden cost, that’s the modus operands of this government. And every single provision of the settlement deal and legal acquisition are set out as an attachment to the bill we are now debating, for not just members for the entire world to see. But let me return to the mathematics of the settlement. Seventy million dollars for thirty-seven percent of B.E.L. In return for this seventy million, government actually gets a total value of one hundred and thirty one million dollars because that is what thirty-seven percent of B.E.L. was worth according to the audit financial at the close at the 2014 financial year. What’s there not to like? And what’s there not to get?</em></p>
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