So, while the relief funds are made to seem that they will follow in a flood of their own, the Prime Minister Barrow said that the two sides of the political divide must come together to get Belize through this series of crises.
As he demits office, he made a public call for the end of the PUDP tribalism that has defined Belizean politics for many years now.
Barrow said on Saturday, that this type of politics - which he freely acknowledged he participated in - will not allow the country to survive the long-lasting impacts of COVID-19:
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow - Outgoing Prime Minister
"We've got to come together as a country, man. This flood and its effects will in fact be taken care of, and will disappear or will recede to the point where it is no longer consequential in fairly short order, not so the pandemic, not so, the aftermath of the pandemic. This is my Parthian shot - if you will - parting appeal. Whoever wins, this country has got to come together, and we have to do politics and governance differently. We'll never be able to operate as some kind of monolithic or large unity force, where is in fact a complete commonality of approach and opinion and operation. But, philosophically, we better get with the program and recognize that this kind of dog-eat-dog kind of politics - that has been been the norm, of which all of us have been guilty, including yours truly, given what is coming down the pipe, with especially the pandemic and its aftermath, we need a complete reset, and I pray to God that I will live to see it happen."
