And even with this program underway, truth is, it's been tried before, and "while di grass di grow" - so to speak - gang rivalries have been heating up in the Antelope Extension area.
And two murders on Saturday - one, a young woman in Belmopan and the other a man in Belize City - prompted Leader of the Opposition, Shyne Barrow, to call for the resignation of the Minister of Home Affairs.
But Musa wasn't fazed by it and fired back at Shyne for being, quote, "an absentee representative" in Mesopotamia. He added that Shyne knows the complexities of crime because he has been present at Musa's community engagement, if only for the photo op.
Hon. Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs and New Growth Industries
"Thankfully, Courtney, I serve as minister of home affairs at the pleasure of the REAL leader of the House of Representatives, not the play-play one, so if Shyne thinks he can remove me, he needs to think again but as a matter of fact, I think he is only doing his job, to be fair to him, he is an absentee politician, he does not stay in the country much so he has to stay relevant and how best to stay relevant than putting out social media posts, it is not as though he has not communicated to me that he understand the complexities of crime and how it has evolved so negatively particularly in Belize City, he is full cognizant of that and it is not as though he isn't aware that his father, and his uncle and the last administration really abandoned and neglected southside Belize city creating a dependency system that has now just really grown out of control and so he knows, he well knows that we are working hard to try to fi this because he's there at every single opportunity to take photos with me, when we're at the prison he's there as well, so it's not as though he does not recognize the problem that has been created over the last couple decades in Belize City but I think it's just a matter of him trying to remain relevant as an absentee representative."
