And, Musa says, that support is a collective Cabinet decision. He says the wage cuts don't even cover the deficit - so Cabinet really only had once choice too make:
Hon. Kareem Musa - Minister of Home Affairs "The full support of the cabinet, of course, the decision was made, we have been looking at these numbers since November 12th. we're nowhere near to the 500-million-dollar shortfall where it is that we as a government can make our cuts, we have been very above-board and we have been agreeing to most if not all of their requests worse, even much away from their own respective elections. So, it's not an easy message to try to get across but we all have to understand that Belize is not unique in this Covid pandemic in terms of what we are suffering economically, other measures that the government will put in place."
