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The bi-partisan event was organized by the Social Investment Fund - and we found out that leaders from both sides of the political spectrum were learning from each other:..

Clifford King, Local Government Officer
"Today we are hosting what we refer to as a best practice and a peer sharing workshop for municipal leaders on revenue enhancement and collection."

"This workshop falls under a program that we are running right now through the Belize Municipal Development Project called the Revenue Enhancement and Support Program. The municipal leaders have taken the initiatives to improve on revenue collection that in turn will result in the development of the municipalities in Belize."

Mayor Darrell Bradley
"We can share best practices among each other and we could discuss what each of us do in terms of the various revenue components; trade license, liquor license, traffic, so that we could adapt what other municipalities do and increase our capacity and we could understand and explain to each other what are our best practices."

"The idea is at the end of the conference we could come up with a list of recommendations, a list of practices that all of us can move to implement jointly."

Josue Carballo, Deputy Mayor of Orange Walk
"Most important or the bigger challenges have to do a lot with legislation - giving greater autonomy to the town councils to do their job both in revenue and well as the legal aspects of how we go around with the tasks and challenges that arise. Definitely I believe that's what we need to do as a body to come together to ask for some changes and legislation. The laws are not made for the people to follow - people are supposed to adjust the laws in accordance to the different needs to the different goods and desires that the town residents need to move forward."

The training is part of the Belize Municipal Development Project - which is World Bank funded to provide both infrastructural and institutional upgrades of City and Town councils.