And, teachers and public officers were surely missing from Saturday's protest – and that may be because their raise is working out to more than the 5% first promised. The Prime Minister discussed the final figure today:
Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister of Belize
"It turns out that they're getting 6%. When you add that with the annual 3% increment, you're talking about a global figure of 9%. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm making the case to you, to the public, this afternoon, that while I can understand the public officers and the teachers want even more, certainly, Government has done, as I said, extremely handsomely by them, and we cannot do more without then passing on the additional portion of a new bill that will become due to the taxpayers. The public officers and the teachers are a critically important and valuable element of our society, but they're not the whole society."
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