The Ministry Of Immigration has met with tourism stakeholders to discuss the Implementation of a National Migration and Development Policy, a first of its kind for Belize. CEO Tanya Santos explained the importance of stakeholder input and feedback on how migration intersects with tourism, labour mobility, investment, and national development. Here's what those consultations looked like.
Tanya Santos, CEO Ministry of Immigration
"So this afternoon we had a very interactive session on the consultation on the national migration and development policy with representatives from the tourism industry. We had reps from the airlines from BTB from the BTIA and they gave us some of their insight on what should be included in our national migration and development policy that affects their sector. So we also had our first stakeholder session which was with representatives from the government of Belize which was on Monday and again we got some very insightful information from them on issues that are affecting their different areas of concentration in the government the team has also had several community consultations in San Pedro in Bella Vista in Belmopan that has revealed some very intriguing recommendations as well for communities. So we continue these consultations for the rest of this week. Tomorrow we will be meeting with data producers because data is very important for policy decision making and also we will be having sessions with the private and productive sector, agriculture industry and others who are large producers."
