And Flowers had one final message for the CEOs who happily accepted their raises - which they say they never asked for.
He argued that they play a major part in the reason why the wage bill is so bloated. But he also singled out the former ComPol, who recently took up his role as CEO in the Ministry of Transport. Flowers says that there needs to be a serious investigation into how that ministry was run last term.
Dean Flowers, President, PSU
"I want to look at them in the camera, you CEOs, a lot of you are paying ghost workers and you're instructing finance officers to do those and you need to stop it and it's you the financial secretary is rewarding, it's you the prime minister I rewarding. That is the conversation, bring all of them in a room and tell them open up Smart Stream. Let's go through payable and see how much you responsible for CEO Dian, let's see how much you responsible for CEO - whatever their names are. Chester, I have a special message to the former Commissioner of Police. You just took over a ministry, Youth and Sports, even though it's been split. It was Transport, Youth and Sports under the Honorable Ferguson. No other than the former commissioner is now there. I am waiting for him to face the Belizean public and tell them that he has opened an investigation on the corruption that plagued that ministry. And if the former commissioner refuses to do that because his minister is talking a good talk right now on the media, yet for him to say he has commissioned an audit on Youth and Sports and I will challenge the Honorable Daly and the Honorable Mahler, do the audit. And I will say to Honorable Mahler and Daly, you're not serious if you don't want to expose that to the Belizean people. And I will say this to the Honorable Minister in Transport and the former commissioner, go and do the audit and investigation and jail who needs to get jailed because that ministry has lost millions of dollars. That's one ministry, we will speak about the other ministries but I want to call the former commissioner out because he's also an attorney and if he's not serious then he had no business being an attorney if he won't hold those beneath him accountable."
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