As we told you, the Prime Minister met with the Utility Unions earlier in the morning. It's about the Section 53 judgment which the Barrow Government initially did not want to appeal, but has now agreed to appeal - an appeal which was reportedly filed today.
Making sure that these unions don't have other urgent grievances, the Prime Minister had a lengthy discussion with them on topics of urgent national interest, and when he came out, he talked to us about how that went:
Rt., Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister of Belize
"This was a meeting that was arranged before the resolution of the section 53 issue. Remember that the utilities unions had in fact come out with a public position, with a press release supporting the churches and after the first meeting with the churches, the Monday meeting, had come out with another press release commending the dialogue and encouraging a resolution. I had promise that after we had the second meeting with the churches, I would make myself available to them so that any unresolved questions they had in their minds could be answered and so that is the genesis of and reason for the meeting. Of course while we had a long discussion on section 53 and all its implications, the meeting was not confined to that."
Marvin Mora, Spokesman for Utilities Unions
"It was necessary because of the different national issues that we have been seeing in the forefront on the media. We discuss several issues. I think it was 10 or so issues that we address. We got some answers about some of the things we wanted to know. We got some updates on some of them and we also believe that the Prime Minister got information as well that would be useful for him in addressing some of the issues we tackle, because we dealt with issues of national importance that deals primarily with our unions as well."
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