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Jan 10, 2001

Higher minimum pensions for civil servants

In news from Cabinet over three hundred retired civil servants whose pensions are at the minimum of two hundred dollars per month will soon see a rise to three hundred. The increases are designed to keep pace with the recent hike in benefits paid to workers covered by Social Security. New legislation is required to authorize the larger payments but whenever the amendments are passed, the funding will be retroactive to January first.

Belizeans who are known by a name different than the one they were legally registered with at birth will soon have a chance to straighten things out. Government will set aside a six month period later this year which will allow such people to choose the name they want to go by and lodge it at the Registry and Elections and Boundaries office. Fees normally levied for such corrections will be waived during the special period. An estimated five thousand Belizeans are potentially eligible for the re-registration, most of whom are using the last name of one parent and wish to change to the other.

People living in villages will soon start to prepare for local elections. The period March fifteenth through April fifteenth has been set aside for elections to be held under the 1999 Village Councils Act. Nomination day is February twenty-eighth and each of the nation’s one hundred and eighty villages and twelve communities will elect a chairman and six councillors for a two-year term.


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