Minister Lisel Alamilla
"Where we are right now is that we are in danger. So it means that you have to address some of the challenges of ensuring that the integrity of that world heritage site is maintained."

Jules Vasquez
"One of the sustain threats to integrity or one of the pursuits that is inimical with world heritage sites is offshore drilling. We do have world heritage sites; the government seeks to pursue offshore drilling. How will those two things be reconcile?"

Minister Lisel Alamilla
"It is my understanding and knowledge that in fact the concessions when they expire they are not being renewed."

Jules Vasquez
"Do you feel that perhaps the entire regime of granting offshore exploration licenses or production sharing agreements has to be revisited in so far as a lot of them are speculative in nature?"

Beverly Wade
"I won't comment on whether they are speculative or not because I don't know the details of these concessions. I do agree that government has to have - developed some form of framework, some policy on how it's going to approach oil exploration and drilling on a whole."

Jules Vasquez
"On the show you used the word "dead raise." Would you explain what that means in this context?"

Beverly Wade
"It was more than general context in terms of how we approach development on a whole and the whole issue of sustainable development. What has been happening a lot is that you get a proposal, you permit these developments to happen but the at the end of the day these people didn't really have the backative to really develop these places, so that's the context that I use "dead raise" because a lot of people come to Belize (we are rich in natural resources), they gain access to some of these areas and they use that to now tr and go and raise funds to develop something and i should really be the other way around."