Today was Cabinet Day, and Prime Minister John Briceno chaired a lengthy and weighty meeting at the House of Culture in Belize City. That's because he will present his first full budget on Friday - and the issue of the proposed pay cut for teachers and public officers hangs in the balance.
None of the official details have been disclosed yet about what came out of Cabinet, but after the session was over, we tried to get an interview with the Prime Minister. We contacted his PR staff in the hopes of getting a few words with him, but when he left the meeting area, it was clear that the PM wasn't going to grant any comments to us at the entrance of the House of Culture.
When his driver finally exited the compound, the PM's vehicle drove off with only a slight acknowledgment of our presence. He didn't roll his window down to give us a verbal refusal, and simply drove off.
