{"id":81730,"date":"2026-02-10T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/?p=81730"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:50:08","slug":"udp-boycotts-house-meeting-cites-pm-disrespect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/udp-boycotts-house-meeting-cites-pm-disrespect\/","title":{"rendered":"UDP Boycotts House Meeting, Cites PM Disrespect"},"content":{"rendered":"

And that same defiance carried into the political arena, where the UDP also defended its decision to boycott Friday\u2019s House Sitting, insisting they won\u2019t sit in<\/a> Parliament while, as they put it, the Brice\u00f1o administration \u201ctakes them for fools\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Gabriel

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gabriel Zetina<\/p><\/div>\n

Gabriel Zetina, UDP Senator<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision that the UDP Parliamentarian caucus took to boycott the recent Sitting of the House of Representatives was made to protest the BTL and Smart acquisition. I want to reassure the Belizean that no one was coerced.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Tracy

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tracy Panton<\/p><\/div>\n

Tracy Panton, Leader, United Democratic Party <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been no regret that the UDP via its Parliamentarians will not allow the government to use the national Assembly and to use the House of Representatives as a rubber stamp for corruption. And the opportunity is not lost. This matter in my view requires oversight by Parliament and the fact that the Prime Minister who knew nothing of this deal, he did not know that BTL was talking tohis family company. But he now knows that he is directing, the prime minister of this country has inserted himself to direct a pause on a deal he knew nothing about. The UDP Parliamentarians will not be treated like \u201ckunumunu\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

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And that same defiance carried into the political arena, where the UDP also defended its decision to boycott Friday\u2019s House Sitting, insisting they won\u2019t sit in Parliament while, as they put it, the Brice\u00f1o administration \u201ctakes them for fools\u201d. \u00a0 Gabriel Zetina, UDP Senator \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":81664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[449,444,475,474,447],"tags":[10610,10646,10645],"class_list":["post-81730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-latest-news","category-news","category-people-places","category-politics","tag-2026-02-10","tag-cites-pm-disrespect","tag-udp-boycotts-house-meeting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81731,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81730\/revisions\/81731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}