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GOB Says UNCAC On Target
posted (September 15, 2017)
For the past few weeks, the social partners have been grumbling about the slow progress with UNCAC, the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. It was signed in December of last year - but the unions and the Chamber say they have yet to see any convincing follow up.

Well, today the Attorney General's Ministry sent out a release that's over a thousand words long to say just what they've been doing with UNCAC.

The release recounts in lavish detail every inch of progress towards implementing a technically complex convention. The bottom line? Belize will be reviewed in what's known as "the First Cycle," by Haiti and from the regional group and Tuvalu from the international group. That review started on July 25th., and over the last 6 weeks the Attorney General's Ministry has been engaged in, quote, "a rigorous analysis of the legal and institutional framework of Belize." The due date for a Self-assessment Checklist is in ten days. A press release says, quote, the Government of Belize has made several successful steps towards the implementation of the UNCAC."

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