Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson – chances are you have probably heard his name before as in July 2013, a local television station reported him to be a fraud that was using, quote, “fantasy ideas to develop a website with videos and articles to fool potential investors into swindling their money.” Unquote. And, even more recently, if you are on any of the social media such as Facebook – you probably have been reading the various links of him announcing his support and backing of the now elected, Cayo South standard bearer for the United Democratic Party, Ralph Huang. Ordinarily, this wouldn’t have been what we call newsworthy, except that the idea of having an aspiring politician be affiliated or being financed by someone who has been labelled or referred to as a fraud does raise some eyebrows. Initially, we thought perhaps the videos shown on Facebook and YouTube were all a hoax as Gibson has listed several projects that he has going in Belize that seem to be nothing but phantom works. So then, we thought, why not ask Ralph Huang, himself and, that is exactly what we did. Huang confirmed for us via telephone today that Gibson is a personal friend of his.
RALPH HUANG
“Yes, I do know the man and he is a very wonderful person and he is my friend and we do have business together abroad the country.”
RENEE TRUJILLO
“Did he fund your campaign? Did he put any money into your campaign?”
RALPH HUANG
“Yes, he contributed.”
RENEE TRUJILLO
“With financiers, one of the things that a lot of voters will be asking is what does he expect in return for contributing to your campaign?”
RALPH HUANG
“Nothing; he just simply wants to help the people of Belize. He is not asking for anything in return; I have known him for some years now.”
RENEE TRUJILLO
“Do you know if he is assisting any other ministers or any other standard bearers or any potential standard bearers?”
RALPH HUANG
“No comments; no comments on that topic there.”
When asked what made him decide go into the politics, Huang gave the usual and expected response, saying, he loves the people of Cayo South and he believes that he can serve his people better than the opposition’s current standard bearer, Julius Espat. While we attempted to get the opposition’s take on this Gibson-Huang issue, we were told that their input on the matter will be forthcoming.
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