Last night, we told you that the Belize City Council is still without a city administrator. The post became vacant following the unfortunate and untimely passing of former city administrator Stephanie Lindo-Garbutt. Reports indicate that at least three applications have been submitted. According to reports, among the applicants are former city councillor Albert Vaughn and
Feb 11, 2021
Budget Consultations Continue, G.O.B. Meets with B.N.T.U.
The government continued budget consultations today, preparing for the presentation of the budget in March. Today, a team of high-level ministers met with the Belize National Teachers Union. Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde and Ministers Francis Fonseca and Henry Charles Usher sat down with B.N.T.U. National President Senator Elena Smith and members of the executive. The government made presentations regarding the state of the nation’s economy. It has been a continuous declaration of the new administration that the country is in a financial chokehold. This evening the government released an Analysis of the State of the Nation’s Economy. The report states that Belize’s unemployment rate is more than triple the average unemployment rate throughout the Caribbean and more than quadruple that of Central America; that government revenues fell by almost thirty percent or over three hundred millio
Feb 11, 2021
Cordel Hyde
Following today’s budget consultation with the B.N.T.U., Deputy PM Cordel Hyde and Ministers Francis Fonseca and Henry Charles Usher were asked if cabinet ministers received a ten percent salary cut. Prime Minister John Briceño made that announcement in December 2020, but in a recent interview with the media, the P.S.U.’s first vice president Dean Flowers said that he had received documents showing otherwise. We asked the DPM about it.
Hipolito Novelo
“The first vice president of the P.S.U., Mister Flowers has gone on national television to say that it would inconsiderate for the government to ask the public sector to take a wage cut because he gotten evidence from the Ministry of Finance that you as the minister has not received a ten percent salary cut.”