And one more issue of burning public interest that the Prime Minister weighed in one today is Harmonyville and their desire to "plant di corn" on the 29 acres of road reserve between their community and the highway. He held the government's position that it will strictly not be permitted:
Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister of Belize
"You can't plant corn on the road reserve, for 2 obvious reasons. The road reserves are there for a purpose, and road reserves belong to the Government and people. Well, ladies and gentlemen, our position is quite straight-forward. We're not going to countenance illegality, lawless behaviour. It is simply not going to happen. If the members of the Harmonyville community really want to plant corn on any portion the 1,300 acres that they own, Government will - by way of the Department of Agriculture - make seeds available, make extension services available - may even be prepared to use bulldozers to assist the individual owners in in fact planting corn. It is just that, Mr. Harmonyville, you will not plant corn on the road reserve."
As we said it was a three hour press conference today – and so far, we've only excerpted about seven and a half minutes. We'll have a few more choice cuts form the PM's press conference later on – including today's big reveal: the formal announcement that Darrell Bradley will run for mayor in a second term.
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