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Prime Minister Dean Barrow returned to the country yesterday after a trip to Washington DC to meet with the IDB. The Business of his visit was to sign a major rural poverty alleviation initiative. It's called the National Indicative Program, signed with the European Commission, for the period of 2014 to 2020.

The NIP is valued at 27 million Euro - or 67.5 million Belize dollars, and it is designed to assist the government in alleviating rural poverty in Belize.

The NIP will be beneficial to citizens in the Energy and Health Sector.