RUMOR - UDP GOVERNMENT IS SUBVERTING SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD INDEPENDENCE, WITH APPLYING BOARD RULING FIRING OF CROOKS ON THE BOARD

UDP government, through Lois Young government rep on the Social Security Board has mounted a dirty campaign to block the Social Security Board from having it´s recommendations enforced.

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UNION SAYS SOCIAL SECURITY WORKERS SHOULD NOT SIGN LETTER
February 16, 2012

Multiple sources have indicated that the Board of directors of the Belize Social Security Board has voted to terminate the services of Chief Executive Officer Merlene Bailey Martinez and internal Auditor Denise Mahler. The two senior executives of the SSB were place on suspension last month following allegations that they used privileged information to get staff to adjust their loans in order to take advantage of the government’s debt write off scheme for non-performing loans. An independent audit was carried out by the Panel Kerr Foster accounting firm, but the results of that audit have not been made public. Love News has been attempting to get information on the employment status of the suspended Martinez and Mahler; but we are told that the Chairman of SSB, attorney Lois Young is out of the country, and the acting CEO has been in meetings since yesterday. Multiple staff of Belize Social Security Board who contacted Love News indicates that a petition is being circulated for them to sign, claiming that they, the staff want the Board to reinstate Merlene Bailey Martinez and Denise Mahler. Today the Christian Workers Union which represents SSB workers issued a press release expressing dismay and dissatisfaction with the alleged move to reinstate the CEO and Internal Auditor. The CWU says it is categorically not in support of this effort and furthermore that it did not formulate and is not responsible for the circulation of any such letter. The CWU release also says that if the Board of Directors has decided to fire CEO Martinez and the internal auditor, then it should not interfere and just let it be. It ends by calling on all unionized SSB workers to refrain from signing any letter of petition calling for the reinstatement of Martinez and Mahler.