BARBADOS TRADE MISSION TO BELIZE CUT SHORT!

BARBADOS TRADE MISSION VISITS THE PORT OF BELIZE CITY

It was interesting but SAD, to see on the evening television cable news, that a BARBADOS TRADE MISSION came looking to make up more exports to Belize, so quickly after the visit of the CARICOM SECRETARIAT. It was sad, because the port of Belize City is a kind of mecca of merchandise importers, but they do not represent the industrial heart of the country of Belize and the agro-businesses. The movers and shakers of the economy.
I feel SAD and SORRY for these Barbados people, they spent so much money and came so far and their visit was so limited in scope and achievement. Many of us in the Industrial and Agricultural heartland of Belize would have liked to mingle and talk with them. Ask questions and get ideas and answers for trade with CARICOM. Whoever arranged this TRADE MISSION did not organize it very well. Very light and perfunctory and probably a waste of their money.
We only heard of it, AFTER THE FACT in the other six districts of most of Belize. I saw it mentioned on cable television in the news. What the BARBADOS people should have done, is held their TRADE MISSION in BLUE CREEK, SPANISH LOOKOUT and the TWIN TOWNS of Western Belize as well. This is were the INVESTORS are, and the PRODUCERS of Belize. Alas, it was not to be, I guess. One of those MISSED OPPORTUNITIES both for Belizeans and Barbadians.