Belize Chamber of Commerce Chastises the Unions over the Proposed Cost-Saving Measures

The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry today weighed in on the impasse between the government and the unions.  It says that in an economic scenario where COVID-19 has shut down the largest part of our economy for the next several months, where millions have been lost and the projected revenue collection is down, it is unacceptable that the present uncertainty should lead to additional debt to meet G.O.B.’s recurrent costs.  The union says that the private sector expects that government and the public sector would unite for answers to slash its costs of operation to the barest minimum as the private sector has been forced to do to survive. The Chamber strongly suggests that both sides of this debate immediately reorient their approach to discuss making government less costly so that each member of the population, including the unemployed, does not have to carry the additional burden of paying an additional two hundred and fifty dollars each.