Apr 14, 2021
Elena Smith
On Tuesday, you heard that the Public Service Union has put G.O.B. on notice of a trade dispute. Their work-to-rule campaign has already started as an initial form of industrial action. Well today, News Five confirmed that the Belize National Teachers Union ran a poll of its membership and the results are in. They too will strike. The normally accessible president Elena Smith has hunkered down with the leadership which has entered emergency planning mode. An internal memo leaked online suggests that the campaign will be very highly visible, with picketing in front of businesses and a boycott of gas stations which owe taxes. There will also be protests in front of the two telecommunication companies and a walkout of schools. The memo even speaks to demonstration on the highway, which they claim will be blocked for fifteen minutes. This course of action comes on the heels of government’s budget presentation that reflects a ten percent salary c
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“That is not a proposal from the government. What we have been doing, we said that we are going to have consultations and consultations mean that you present the facts. These are the facts, this is in front of us, now you tell us what are your ideas in how we can close this gap. Fact the U.D.P. left us with a deficit of five hundred million dollars. It took previous governments from 1981 to 2008 for us to borrow more than five hundred million dollars. The U.D.P. government has left us in a hole of five hundred million dollars in one year, we are short of over three hundred million dollars.”
Apr 7, 2021
PSU Holds Emergency Meetings to Finalize Position on GOB’s Wage Cuts
The Public Service Union held a series of emergency meetings today to discuss with its membership the position they will take regarding a proposed salary cut and increment freeze. Permission was granted by the Ministry of Public Service earlier today for government employees, those who belong to the labor organization, to get time-off to attend the meeting. News Five understands that an initial meeting was held via Zoom at midday during which a vote was taken on whether the union should serve notice to government of an existing trade dispute. Of the one hundred and two members in attendance, seventy-one voted in favor of serving notice on GOB, one member voted against the suggested course of action and another thirty abstained from the exercise. Another virtual meeting was held at three o’clock this afternoon which will be followed by a final meeting at seven p.m. The PSU is gal
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While the country has been documenting unaccompanied minors since 2016, it is primarily collecting data on Central Americans ending up in Belize. Those cases came to a halt in 2020 [.]