As you saw, the National President, Luke Palacio was in Stann Creek today, and he was expected at a meeting in Belmopan with the Prime Minister, as one of the 3 union leaders negotiating a salary adjustment.
Representatives of the BNTU, the Public Service Union, and the Association of Public Service Senior Managers participated in that meeting, at its completion, our colleagues from Plus TV tried to get comments from the unionists and the Prime Minister, but they all declined. BNTU Rep George Frazer told Plus TV only that they finally got a chance to get clarification with the Prime Minister on questions they had from last year.
Back in Dangriga, though, the teachers discussed Cabinet's recent decision on the BAA scandal, and the decision to remove Penner as Chair of a House Committee, thus taking away his Government ride. Palacio said that it is a welcome step in the right direction in dealing with that immigration scandal, but it is far from enough:
Luke Palacio - National President, BNTU
"When you look at Mr. Penner - but three immigration officers have been recommended for dismissal and Penner sat there. They put him in a little corner like a little timeout corner, but because again we are speaking about this corruption at our rallies they have decided to do something more... the people are not satisfied with what you do. They tell him to sit down in corner and think about what you do. They took away his chairmanship of the House committee because the argument why they could not take away the vehicle was because he was chairman of a committee and as such he is entitled to a government vehicle. Well now they move him as chairman and they took away his vehicle. We are saying that is not enough. If he has done wrong, let him face the law and let us get justice - let the policemen do their job, arrest Penner if they have to, find out what wrong he did and if he is wrong and he has to go to jail let him go to jail because they would have grab you and I if it were us."
"You see what they have done to a fellow police officer for some rusty bullets. That is what our country has come to my brother and sisters."
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