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NTUCB Ups The Ante On GOB
posted (June 6, 2014)
Last night we told you about the "Rod of Correction" movement - a coalition of all the social partners, unions and pressure groups who came together yesterday to bring pressure to the Barrow administration. Their first public engagement is tomorrow when they will join the BGYEA "Plant Di Corn" Protest at the Battlefield Park in Belize City.

Today, in advance of the that, the National Trade Union Congress of Belize sent out a strong statement saying the protest is, quote, "intended to sound the warning that this National Trade Union Congress cannot sit idly by and watch the executive arm of government utilize the judicial machinery to subvert a process they do not agree with."

The Congress has sent out the call to all its affiliates to join in tomorrow's protest.

The NTUCB also issued a statement on the Elvin Penner criminal case - the private prosecution of which is stalled because of a lack of evidence.

The statement refers to "files-hounding" by the police department and says, quote, "As of NOW ... the Congress demands that ALL the relevant Penner case files…wherever they may be at present; be immediately released to COLA to facilitate the fair and uninhibited advancement of COLA's case in court."

We understand the file is with the head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch.

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