CITCO delays benefit payments to workers

In labour news, the Belize City Council has issued a press release informing two hundred and twenty employees who have been terminated and transferred to a private maintenance company, that their accrued benefit payments will be late in coming. The delay was attributed to “administrative setbacks”. Mayor David Fonseca and councillors will be meeting Friday with employee and union representatives. In related news, leaders of the Belize Workers Unions and management of Belize Sugar Industry met this afternoon to discuss B.S.I.’s plans to eliminate close to one hundred jobs at the Tower Hill Factory. At newstime the results of the discussions had not been made public.