In fact, the event passed by without even any official mention. But 7news has confirmed that on Wednesday - mid level officials met with Gang Leaders at the CYDP Office in Belize City where the leaders were told that the programme was officially terminated.

We understand that all the participants were given a gratuity of one month's pay. That is one month at the current rate of work which had been reduced to three days a week.

At its peak, the programme employed 15 members from 13 gangs.

It started in September of 2011 - after an ugly confrontation between the GSU and the George Street Gang. The main movers behind it were Sheldon Pinky Tillett and Prime Minister Dena Barrow, but when Tillett was executed earlier this year - the programme seems to have lost its center. Couple that with government's decline in finances - and its end was foretold.