P.C.C. Granted Extension til May of 2025

The People’s Constitution Commission was supposed to submit its final report this week, but that’s been delayed. Chairman Anthony Chanona requested a second extension to delve deeper into the review. Today, Minister of the Public Service Henry Charles Usher confirmed that the extension has been granted, but no additional funds will be provided. The Commission is working with a budget of one point five million dollars and is tasked with delivering a report to the Prime Minister based on public consultations and recommendations for amending Belize’s Constitution.

 

Henry Charles Usher, Minister of Public Service

“The Chairman, after meeting with the commission, made a request to the Prime Minister for another extension. However, the legislation did not contemplate that.  So, we had to go to the house yesterday to introduce and to read through three readings, an amendment to the section dealing with the extension so that we could give one final extension, which was approved by the house. It needs now to be approved by the Senate. Well, that extension goes up to May of 2025, for the final report to be submitted to the Prime Minister. The Chairman has advised the Prime Minister that he does not need any more money all he’s asking for is more time to have the stakeholders respond to the raw data and for them to put together the final report.”