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Briceno Joins Union, Says Sign UNCAC Now
posted (October 7, 2016)

As we’ve told you the government has committed to signing the UN Convention Against Corruption on December ninth. The Chamber says that timeline is right on time, but the BNTU has said, “we don’t trust you, sign it now!â€￾  And yesterday, the opposition leader said just the same in Orange Walk when he marched with the teachers:

Hon. John Briceno - Leader of the Opposition
"We know that the only reason that they have said they are going to sign it because they were afraid that the private sector, the chamber and the Belize Business Bureau were at the point of saying we are going to shut down businesses until the government does something. So again it's a delayed tactic to say okay we're going to sign it on the 9th of December. We don't know, all they want to do is get the teachers back to the schools, want to make sure that the chamber and the Belize Business Bureau does not strike on them. So they believe that if we stop it now between now and December any number could play; we could divide them and it wouldn't be an issue and probably will not sign. If the prime minister is serious he can sign it today, sign it today and then we can rectify it on the 9th of December because it's a two part process, you sign then you rectify. We could bring in the experts right now from the United Nations to come in and to help us to come set a road map so all the activities that has to be done and by when and who is going to be doing it making the budget available so that we can enact it; so the prime minister is playing games."

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