At the top of the news, we told you about the Maya claimants' trip back to the Caribbean Court of Justice on Maya Rights.
Less than 3 weeks ago, they got a huge judgement in their favor that the Government must set up a fund of $300,000 to make reparations on their behalf. But, not much detail has been given on how this will exactly work, specifically, what are the terms, and how will this money actually be used? That's the clarification that their attorney tried to seek from the judges who granted the decision in the first place.
The spokesperson for the MLA discussed that aspect of this morning's hearing with us, and here's what he had to say:
Pablo Mis, Program Coordinator - MLA
"We did brought that up as well. Again, for us it was important to clarify what exactly is that amount of money going to be use for and what is it going to support. Is it going to support some of the activities of the Maya people? Because we will have to do consultations and organize our Maya people as well and that's going to incur resources. The court again opted to give the government the benefit of the doubt and they included as a part of the element that must be reported on in January of next year."
Some of the details should be worked out by January 21.
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