Cab Sec Leslie has been busy this week. On Monday he was in Cayo with the Cabinet crew for an all day session dealing with the complex issue of Mayan land rights. Leslie shared with us today why this special meeting was of critical importance to them.
Stuart Leslie, Cabinet Secretary
"The minister down south responsible for indigenous peoples affairs, continuously stresses the need for everybody in cabinet to get all the facts and all the details on what is happening. You know that some years ago the government agreed to a consent order that would see recognition of Maya, traditional rights. How you work this out on the ground is not easy and so what we did was we asked and brought experts to spend a day with cabinet to explain the history of what took place at how we move from step to step to implement an order that was given by the Caribbean port of justice and so it was a successful day. A lot of information was passed along a lot of it knowledge gained and so it's one more step forward in trying to see that we fulfill our obligation by the court to implement this order."
