And, the PM added that the Port of Belize's inability to sign off on a collective bargaining agreement with the CWU for the past 16 years was the deal breaker in Cabinet when the 200 million dollars Waterloo port expansion project came up for approval:
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"But then came the day on which they the port Waterloo ask for government to approve the draft MOU's that they had submitted even as the problems with the workers were still utterly on the boil. When the matter was raised, I encountered a cabinet united in its position, no stevedore solution, no GOB signature. So this is where we are and this is where we stand and they are bleating about the rule of law and their investment being unfairly turned away - is hypocritical and will get them nowhere. The rule of law for present purposes is encapsulated in section 45 of the labour act, the same one they have refused to follow. It is their dishonoring or our regulations and legal codes of our democracy that is at the heat of this drama and it is all of a piece with the historical record of the moving hand, the leopard does not change it spots and the oppressor cannot be allowed to play victim."
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