Several Commissioners of the People's Constitution Commission have written to the PM detailing their concerns about the final report that was submitted to him. Those commissioners include the reps from the National Women's Commissioner, the University of Belize, the National Students' Union of Belize, the Young Leaders Alliance of Belize, the Belize National Teachers' Union, the LGBT community, the Maya Councils, and the Public Service Union.
In the letter, they stated that six commissioners communicated their concerns to the chairman in April, including: procedural mismanagement of the process and violations, adherence with the consensus principle that does not exist in the law, inconsistent record keeping, and bad faith management of the recommendation report.
They then say that Chairman Anthony Chanona dismissed these issues and proceeded with the process. Then, in a May 14th meeting, they expressed their concern again.
Since those concerns were ignored again, they say that the report submitted, quote, "cannot be properly described as the report mandated under section 6 of the PCC Act."
They then state that they take objection to the final report and dissociate themselves. They state the reasons as, quote, "The recommendations in the final report are not the recommendations endorsed by majority of the PCC; in fact, we have not even held a copy of the report and only received a visual presentation on screen during the May 14th Meeting". End quote.
These commissioners are now asking for the PM to grant them a meeting before the end of this month to further explain their objections.
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