And while he's in Grenada, out on the island of San Pedro, there's a welcome cocktail for the investment summit which starts officially tomorrow.
But, the UDP hopes to rain on the government's parade by staging a protest in front of the venue which is the Grand Caribe Belize.
But the Commissioner of Police says no permit to protest has been approved and on Sunup on 7 earlier this week - he explained why. We also have the response we got today from Shyne Barrow:
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"From my reading of the letter that was sent to eastern division commander it says that they want to protest because they are dissatisfied in how the government handled the Perez matter, Minister perez. And they choose, they are choosing to go and protest in San Pedro in front of Grand Caribe where the investment summit is going to be held. Now the people who are going to be here for the investment summit, they have nothing to do with the election of Minister Perez. They are not the ones who voted for him so why go and protest to them about Minister Perez. If you want to have a protest in San Pedro over the issue surrounding Minister Perez and you want the voters who voted for him to maybe rethink their position then you do that to the San Pedro people. It does not have to be during the time of the summit, we have an international event that is geared towards attracting investors into the country to improve our economy and we just are just going out there to protest for protest sake to cause ourselves to be insulted or embarrassed on the international stage we need to rethink our position. I have no difficulty granting the permit to protest but I have said to them it must be it must be outside of the days of the investment summit, so do it either before or after."
Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"What is an embarrassment is when the tourist was gunned down on New Year's eve. That is an embarrassment, that does more to impact tourism and investor confidence. So again, we are protesting on many fronts. We do not need a permit."
"This is a democracy. The last time we applied last year, I believe when you make the application, it is a matter of notice so that the police could be prepared and take the necessary measures. It should not be a matter of them saying yes or no. We are prepared to protest peacefully at this time. And so there should be no refusal, no prevention of any Belizean organization or private group of citizens to protest peacefully."
We are told there is some division on the UDP executive in San Pedro on whether they will support the protest.
