Central Government’s Cabinet release on land use policy

Cabinet, during a regular session today, was informed that forty thousand dollars was disbursed to rice formers in Toledo last week by the Belize Marketing and Development Corporation.  Another two hundred thousand dollars will be paid out this week followed by a hundred thousand next week as part payment for the current rice crop.  It also endorsed the National Land Use Policy and Integrated Planning Framework, a course of action put together by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment through the Forestry Department.  Finally, it approved the distribution of two acres of land within the Ministry of Works compound in Belmopan to be used as the site for a new Bureau of Standards building that will house a metrology lab and office space.