CDB’s President on Belize’s Economic Options

And the other major road project which the PUP government inherited from the UDP is the Coastal Road Project.

That is continuing at full speed and scale, and the Caribbean Development Bank is a big part of it. The Bank recently concluded its 51st Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors, and capped it off with a virtual press conference by new President, Dr. Gene Leon.

7News participated in the Zoom session and asked about Belize's alarming poverty rate - where 1 of every 2 Belizeans is poor, and our equally alarming debt to GDP ration of more than 130%. All of this while we're still under the COVID pandemic.

Leon said no one even knows when we will really be past COVID: