BELIZE UDP REPORT CARD JUMPS 2 POINTS TO 44 %

BELIZE UDP GOVERNMENT REPORT CARD JUMPS 2 POINTS TO 44% FROM 42%.

The increase of two percentage points in the UDP report card, is because of an article in the San Pedro Sun, re-posted on the Belize Culture Listserve that said something like; a $30 million foreign loan has been received by the Government of Belize, to upgrade infra-structure. Among the list of recipients of this money were numerous municipalites throughout the nation of Belize. With the notable exception of the Port City, called Belize City. Under past governments ALL incoming monies were spent on the port of Belize City in an amount that exceeded 80% most of the time, to the detriment of building the nation of Belize and the other six districts. This new money coming in is intended for municipalities. There are nine towns in Belize of any size. All need funds and government strengthening. The UDP government under Prime Minister Barrow is making sure all this new loan money is going to build up the strength of the other cities and larger towns in the nation of Belize. There are not many of them, but the rationale has been expressed, that they must get the port town population to migrate to the district larger towns, where the opportunities for further development and growth exist.
The port of Belize City has become an embarrassing problem from congestion and ghettos of poverty and crime.
Needless to say this is the FIRST GOVERNMENT that has considered that the rest of the six districts and nation of Belize are worthy of development. We thusly award the UDP government 2 % percentage points on their REPORT CARD. These 2 percentage points are for allocation and intent. The UDP haven't done it yet and we note that our local Hillview slope has streets that require culverts in 5 or 6 places that were never finished, from when the UDP built the place to begin with, about 17 years ago. Further points will be issued on observations of improvements completed.