And according to the CEO, a big part of this crisis is because Belizeans simply don't want to do the manual labor jobs:
Tanya Santos - CEO - Ministry of Immigration
"I think efforts have been made in the past to get Belizeans to do some of those manual tasks in the agriculture industry. It didn't fare off well. And I don't think it will now either. Getting people in the banana industry, now coconut is a big one. That's their labor. That's where they go to. They have standing arrangements with Guatemala and with Honduras to bring in workers for manual labor. And now, even construction. Construction needs workers, and we're seeing demands and requests for workers in the construction industry and manual labor. And even in the medical field, we're seeing a significant increase in requests for doctors, whether from Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala. It's increasing. Yes, and I know that some of our doctors are actually leaving through the CSME, and we have maybe three or four doctors who have left recently."
