Opposition Leader, “this crowd di tek we fuh kunumunu”

The budget debate continued with sharp criticism from the Opposition today, this time over a twenty-six-million-dollar loan motion tied to the Western Highway upgrade. Opposition Leader Tracy Taegar-Panton took aim at the Briceño administration’s infrastructure strategy, questioning its priorities. She pointed out that while nearly half of the highway project is being funded through this loan, not a single dollar is being invested in upgrading bus terminals, a key part of the public transport system. Panton argued that the government is leaning too heavily on road construction as its main economic driver, while overlooking the everyday needs of commuters.

 

Tracy Taegar Panton, Leader of the Opposition

“To tell the Belizean people, at our very first working session, before the prime minister could dot the last I and cross the last  a loan motion was approved for the sum of twenty-six million dollars to over forty-seven percent of road repairs from Democracia to Belmopan. According to the member for Cayo South, who is responsible for the ministry of housing and infrastructure development, urgent repairs are needed. To listen to his logic one would never understand that millions have been invested over the years for highway upkeep that include this eighteen mile stretch. There was a time when the member of Cayo south use to stand up and make the case that people cannot eat streets. Now this is lauded as this government’s preferred strategy to keep the wheels of this economy going. This crowd the take we for kunu munu.”