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MOE Still Working Out Teachers' Late Salaries Thu, January 16, 2025 And while the ministry is working on that, what about the Belizean teachers who have had problems with their salary? Before the new year, the BNTU threatened to demonstrate this month.. And while the ministry is working on that, what about the Belizean teachers who have had problems with their salary? Before the new year, the BNTU threatened to demonstrate this month, but the ministry promised to get all their salaries in before Christmas. They were able to give the funds to the managements on time, but many of those managements still haven't disbursed all payments to their teachers. Fonseca says they're still working on it, and on the system on a whole, but they've scheduled an all day stakeholder meeting as well. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education "Yeah, I think for the most part, I think there may be a few individual cases outstanding. But I think for the most part, based on our reports that we have received back from the managing authorities. We feel that, you know, over 95% of these issues have been resolved. And we have engaged with the, the BNTU you, of course, since the start of the year. And we are, you know, working on any specific individual cases that they bring to our attention. As soon as we find out about them, we try to resolve them. So, I feel good about where we are, and we are planning another meeting. I think we're scheduling it for the 23rd of this month, January, where we will, it's called a stakeholder meeting. And all day meeting where we will have the ministry of education, we have BNTU, the managing authorities, we will also bring in the Treasury Department, the accountant general, Social Security, where we will have an all this sit down to discuss any outstanding issues and address any concerns moving forward." Reporter: "They've pointed to an archaic system that has largely contributed to these delays. How do you, as a government minister, seek to address this particular issue?" Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education "Oh, we are addressing it. We are addressing it. We have been working on it for, you know, more than a year. The difficulty is digitization of all of these records and data and material. So, you know, with any system that you're putting together, input is critically important. So getting the correct data, you know, has been a very, very challenging process. But we are well underway with that process. So we are absolutely satisfied and confident that, you know, going into the, the new school year this year, in September of this year, that we will have all of these issues resolved so that moving forward, not just we're doing this, of course, for our teachers now but what we want to put in place is a system that will benefit everybody moving forward. So this will not be a problem for any future Ministry of Education, for any future teachers. So we're very confident about that."

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