And from ground zero at the Port of Belize to the National Assembly in Belmopan - the events of the last few days were at the top of the agenda today.
In an opening statement at today's House Meeting, the PM gave an outline of the Government's problem with the terminations:
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"The Labour act does not prohibit employers from doing what they have to do as their businesses faced a hobson's choice, but the act does cast a clear duty on them to observe in the process a few fundamental norms of decency and respect. It is a duty that according to the CWU and in the estimation now of the department of labour PBL has refused to follow. So what I want to know is this: why out of all the hundreds of employers in similar situations, is it only the port of Belize that stands accused of treating workers with disrespect and contempt? Are our people now to be handle as chattel? rights and dignity? Must we tolerate some latter day over Lord, some new oppression? And who are the politicians that open their pockets, but shut their mouths, that sells their souls to the moving hand seeking to pull down this curtain of thralldom over our land?"
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