And following Faber - who has five terms under his belt - was Corozal Bay's first term rep, Elvia Vega Samos. She may be a first timer, but she came prepared with the figures to lash back at Faber, saying that education was in a dismal state during his tenure.
Elvia Vega Samos, Area Rep, Corozal Bay
"I sat listening to the representative from Collet and I know that it must burn him as the former Minister of Education what he could not do in 13 years this government has done in 2 years. We are rolling out free education to the most marginalized people because we know that is the way to get our people out of poverty. This is not lip service, this is action. I also heard him mentioning about."
"About borrowing of money from the present government. What he failed to mention was that these loans were put to good use and not for the purchase of tacos, money was rolling then and was being used for things that were not good for our people. When I speak, Member of Collet, I speak with the facts and I want to remind you something here today, under your legacy, you keep speaking about the UDP legacy, under your watch, in 2015, the number of students attending school in pre primary was 7,618 students. There was a drastic decline in 2020 with only 4,914 students, where were you? We look at the primary school students, in 2015, 68,084 students. 2020, 61,914 students. Drastic decline as well."
"If we are going to be speaking today about this budget and how it has nothing for our people then I was really hoping that being that you were in the education sector, that you would have been objective, however, that was not the case."
