Regional money minders meet in Belize

We don’t know what they will be carrying in their wallets, but between them, the group of two dozen or so visitors coming to Belize this weekend control the wealth of eight nations and the region’s most important lending institution. On Saturday, only a day after government defends its budget in the House of Representatives, Belize will host a meeting of the Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Presidents of Central America and the Dominican Republic. On Sunday many of those same officials will gather, also at the Radisson, for the eighteenth consultative meeting between the Inter-American Development Bank’s management and it governors–usually those same ministers of finance–from Central America and the D.R. Sunday’s meeting will be co-chaired by I.D.B. President Enrique Iglesias and Belize’s Minister of Finance, Ralph Fonseca. The press will be briefed by both men at a session on Monday morning.