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And switching now to government finances, when we caught up with Jose Abelardo Mai, the area rep for Orange Walk South this morning, we asked him about the additional appropriation that the PM took to the House two weeks ago to get special funding for police to to counter Narco activity and narco violence in the north.
Mai - who division contains many narco hotspots due to its proximity to the border, at first denied that there was any such thing going on pointing instead to other areas of the country where he feels those occurrences are more prevalent, but in the end, he resigned himself today that when it comes to additional funds for security the PM must know best.
Abelardo Mai, Minister Of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise
"I don't remember the last time something happened that is linked to the narcotic or narcos so to speak, I mean if they want to refer to plane landings I think more planes have landed in southern Belize in the last two to three years, than in the North, we have, we share, long distances border our problem is more the contraband of Mexican goods into Belize, and not Narcos as you say, I understand that in Corozal there have been signs of organized Crime from Mexican influencing the Belizean side and the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Security and home affairs in their view believe it is time to step up to the game and to increase funding, of course we don't want this trickling over to Belize and so the Prime Minister in his judgement believed that he should increase the budget and I have no problem with that, I support that too, like I said in Orange Walk, my constituency I have no, I have not seen any signs of it yet but I understand nearby Corozal, San Victor, I think Douglas there have been incidences of Narco movements spilling over from Mexico to Belize and that has to be controlled."
