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PM Reacts To Teacher’s Rally
posted (March 7, 2014)
And while those 750 teachers railed and rallied outside, inside, in his budget speech, the Prime Minister talked about ingratitude and political agendas by some union leaders. In an interview after the budget presentation, he was more guarded in his choice of words, but still firm:..

Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"It can't be done."

Jules Vasquez
"Yet still the teachers are across the way hollering at you incessantly for hours."

Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"Well I am not going to quarrel. I have said all that I have to say during the speech. The fact is though is that the Belizean public will surely make an assessment of the legitimacy of their protest in view of this wonderful largess that they are getting by way of salary increases. That also speaks for itself."

Jules Vasquez
"However, do you support the minister in their pay being deducted for the day missing from school?"

Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"Absolutely, I think when they were doing the rallies during the month of January that was fine, but to do this after it was disclosed that they were getting not less than 5% - I think that was utterly unreasonable."

The unions and the Government are set to meet shortly to hammer out the final figure for the increase.

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