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In last Wednesday’s meeting of the Senate, Senator for Government Business Eamon Courtenay went into details of a land agreement between the Government of Belize under the Barrow administration and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). It was his attempt to humiliate the past administration, as he went on to call the deal “nefarious” and a “scandal”. He says that because of a number of tax write-offs, we now “find ourselves in this impossible situation today.” Representatives of the United Democratic Party (UDP) held a press conference on Friday to address the issue. Senator for the UDP, Hon. Michael Peyrefitte, first explained that the lands, covering some 266,000 acres in the Yalbac, Gallon Jug, and Laguna Seca areas of Orange Walk and sold to TNC for some USD $72 million, were all privately owned lands. As a result, the agreement did not necessarily need to be presented. Still, this agreement was never hidden nor secret, since the Government, under the Barrow administration

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