Maybe a concern that he should have brought up was the fact that unlike every other business (he represents the business community) in the country of Belize, Ashcroft was given a special tax arrangement that exempted his companies BCB and Belize Bank from paying taxes up to 2020. As the business representative on the senate, one would have thought that would have been his concern, but of course it was not. For one individual to have been illegally given tax breaks is something that the business community and he as the representative should be concerned about.
After waxing about the legal fees being paid for the country to save $88 million he went on to ask for a division of the Senate and voted against the 10.4 million dollar investment that the government will be making through the Caribbean Development Bank Youth and Community Transformation Project Loan. That project is expected to reduce vulnerability of children and youth to crime and gang membership in Collet, Lake-I, Pickstock and Port Loyola, but Lizarraga did not see the need for this investment.
After his performance at the Senate, we wonder if he is getting direction for his positions from the business sector whom he should be representing or he just operates out of his personal whims and fancies.
