Taegar-Panton is also the Minister of State in the Ministry of Investment. But she wasn't at the recent opening of the Harvest Caye Cruise Port because she was at a regional trade meeting in Guyana.
Discussing the project today, she didn't give any ground when the press asked her about FECTAB's complaint that all the Norwegian Ships will now go south and abandon Belize City.
As we showed you last night, multiple Ministers, including the Prime Minister said that would not happen. But, it's happening, and Taegar-Panton said that was the plan:...
Hon. Tracy Taegar-Panton
"From the very onset of those negotiations it was clear that the NCL ships would be sent down south, that would create some opportunity for the southern region of Belize. You know that is the most impoverish in terms of opportunities and so I am not sure what negotiations FECTAB had if any with NCL in terms of being facilitators of tours here on the Belize District. I know that there are a number of tour operators and tours guides in the south who have prepared themselves to benefit from the NCL project in that area."
FECTAB also criticized the Prime Minister's wife, Kim Barrow for taking part in an event where the press was not invited, at a location where - they claim - Belizeans are not welcome. She refused to comment on it today.
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