We caught PM Barrow as he was coming out of a consultation with the Belize National Teachers Union on the issue of the much talked about Gender Policy.
As we showed you last night, the Government of Belize is experiencing resistance from the Churches because they believe that Belize is slowly bending to the LGBT agenda.
Barrow told us today that they are the only ones who have rejected the policy and that the BNTU seemed favorable toward it.
He gave us an update:
Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister of Belize
"The thrust of the Gender Policy is as I described it, it is to empower women, to ensure absolute equality between the sexes meaning the masculine and the feminine sex. I have conceded that if there are particular sections, wordings that could conceivably give rise to misinterpretation, I'd be happy to contemplate on re-wording. But it is completely futile for anyone to ask me to withdraw the gender policy. We'll no doubt hear from the teachers after the counsel of management has reviewed the discussion that we did help but it is my sense walking out of that meeting that the teachers are entirely persuaded that there should be no recall of the gender policy. I've heard them say that now that we've done the review, they can agree that this is absolutely a progressive in the main. Some of them did make clear that they still have some reservations about wording and about meanings and about interpretations but it appeared to me that all agreed that the rationale of the policy and the overarching objective of the policy are both excellent things."
Reporter
"Have you gotten objections from any other sector?"
Hon. Dean Barrow
"No."
PM Barrow meets with representatives of the Churches tomorrow; we'll keep following the developments.
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