BELIZE UDP GOVERNING REPORT CARD LOSES 5 POINTS - New score is 39%.

GUATEMALAN TRANS CENTRAL AMERICA HIGHWAY SYSTEM APPROACHING BELIZE AT THE WESTERN BORDER TOWN OF MELCHOR DE MENCHOS. ( Feb. 2010.)

BELIZE UDP GOVERNMENT report card drops from 44% to 39% rating

We just traveled to Santa Elena Town, the capital of the Guatemalan Department of the Peten and found the asphalted highway short of the border town, of Melchor de Menchos out on the Western border with Belize, nearly finished. The road subsurface is fast traveling though, and all the gravel has been laid, to the border and Melchor de Menchos border town, the shoulders are finished and it only awaits now for the last 22 miles to be covered with six inches of asphalt. We expect this to be done by the end of the dry season, in June.

The UDP GOVERNMENT of BELIZE sees their approval rating of their REPORT CARD, reduced by 5 points. The Cabinet Minister of Tourism in Belize and the Cabinet Minister of TRANSPORTATION have still failed to supply the infra-structure of public bus transportation to the Western Border Immigration crossing. We saw the 2 1/2 mile stretch of double lane boulevard, from Benque to the border, lined with tourist backpackers and locals from both sides of the border, walking the shoulders of this good Belizean highway.
The new BELIZE GOVERNMENT RATING is 39%. the score approval rating for the government of the UDP has dropped from 44 to 39 %.