In other news, today Minister of Tourism and Youth and area rep for Pickstock Anthony Mahler said that Belize needs the LIU program. He also questioned the amount of money budgeted annually for the program - which he said was $6 million—while the Prime Minister said it was $3 million, which, according to our records is the accurate figure.
But, here's how Mahler put it:…
Anthony Mahler - Minister of Tourism, Youth & Sports
"Well, I think, it's good to take a pause and reevaluate any program to see the merits and demerits of it. I support an LIU program and how that looks, We'll have to sit in cabinet and reevaluate that. But, we need that program. And me as Minister of Youth, I often question, how can you be spending $6 million on 583 men when 70% of the population is under the age of 29. Right. And the budget is only $2.7 million or 3 million. Somewhere on there, to me, we have so many bright minds across this country that we need to focus on and what we have to create this safety net. So the safety net would be more free education in high school. And even taking that to sixth form, whereby we have more people enrolled, more people getting educated properly,"
