Ghost Workers in Government? PSU President Demands Answers

Are ghost workers haunting the government’s payroll? That’s the burning question from the Public Service Union, as concerns grow over Belize’s ballooning wage bill. Union leaders say it’s time to shine a light on where the money is really going and whether some of it is being paid to people who don’t work. On Tuesday, PSU President Dean Flowers turned up the heat, publicly challenging government CEOs to come clean about their stance on ghost workers. He didn’t stop there, he also called out Transport CEO Chester Williams, the former Commissioner of Police, urging him to act.

 

Dean Flowers, President, P.S.U.

“Dah unu the financial secretary the reward, dah unu the prime minister the reward. That is the conversation. Bring all of them in a room and tell them let us open up Smart Stream to see how much you responsible for C.E.O. Dian, how much you responsible. Chester, I have a special message to the former commissioner of Police, you just took over ministry, youth and sports, even though it has been split, it was transport, youth and sports under the honorable Ferguson. No other than the former commissioner is there. I am waiting for him to face the Belizean public and tell them that he has opened an investigation. And if the former commissioner refuses to do that, because his minister is talking a good talk on the media. I am yet for him to say he has commissioned an audit of youth and sports and I am challenging the honorable Daly and Mahler to do the audit. That is one ministry, when the time is right we will speak about the other ministries. I want to call the former commissioner out because he is also an attorney and if he is not serious then he has no business being a CEO if he will not hold those beneath him accountable.”