PSU President Says CEO Advisor Post is “Ridiculous”

And while the government defends its decision to hire a seventy-thousand-dollar advisor for the CEO in the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Public Service Union isn’t exactly on board. PSU President Dean Flowers told us this is the first he’s hearing of such an arrangement, and he’s raising eyebrows. Flowers questioned the competency of the CEO needing an advisor in the first place, and while he was at it, he shifted the spotlight to another concern: the salaries of Belize Defense Force soldiers. Here’s what he had to say.

 

Dean Flowers, President, Public Service Union

“This is the first time I am hearing a CEO needs an advisor. What is comical about this situation is that this was one of the very CEOs who would have thrown some comments at me under CEO Shal’s comments and here I was giving her credits and in the words of her minister she does not know what she is doing that she needs and advisor. And I didn’t say that, her minister say that she needed proper advice so he had to hire the good brother, a retiree. It is just another sign that the wage bill is in such an unaffordable state because of their own doings. It is really ridiculous. I intend to do an analysis of the wage bill, especially because of what has happened to our BDF soldiers. I maintain that the BDF and the Police Department are among the lowest paid public officers who do the hardest work in the country in providing citizens security. On my cursory view, there is a gentleman on one of the political stations every morning and his post is classified as a minister’s aid and he is in the forties, he deh dah forty k. How can you do that do our soldiers who are earning twelve and thirteen and fourteen thousand and then you have a minister aid in that category nearing fifty thousand dollars?”