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UPB’s Booi quits politics
By The Daily Herald
Posted: Oct 22, 2009 19:18 UTC
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BONAIRE - UPB leader Ramoncito Booi has confirmed that he is retiring from active politics and will not be on his party’s candidate list in the January 22 elections for the Antillean Parliament.
On the 40th anniversary of the green party, the current political leader said “it’s time to hang up the gloves and pass the baton to the new generation.”
Booi does plan to remain in the Island Council until its four-year term has been completed on July 1, 2011.
He said his decision had nothing to do with his home and those of other prominent UPB members being searched as part of a drug-money-laundering investigation six weeks ago. Neither is he planning to move to the US, where his son plays American football at Wake Forest University, as some have suggested.
“I was born in Bonaire and I will continue living here until God takes me into His Kingdom,” he said.
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