Jul 14, 2021
Ministry of Home Affairs Tours Caye Caulker & San Pedro
Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa and his C.E.O., Kevin Arthurs along with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and other members of ministry are on a countrywide tour, meeting with officers attached to formations in various municipalities. On Tuesday, they were in Corozal and Orange Walk and today, they headed to the coastal communities of Caye Caulker and San Pedro. News Five’s Duane Moody caught up with the delegation and files this report.
Duane Moody, Reporting
The welfare of police officers has been the main topic of discussion as the Minister of Home Affairs makes the rounds on his country tour. Police barracks, health insurance and the overall morale of some two thousand two hundred police officers is at the heart of the visit.
Kevin Arthurs, C.E.O., Ministry of New Growth Industries
“This conversation that we’ve been having in relation to cannabis has been a very long one. I had the benefit of going through some of the past articles and paperwork in relation to the conversation, the national conversation on marijuana and cannabis and I realize that since 2015 we’ve had a decriminalization of marijuana committee that was active and in fact they tabled, I believe, a report and then that led to the passage of the Misuse of Drug Amendment Bill in 2017. So the issue of recreational cannabis has been a legal decriminalized topic for at least three years. So this is the matured and maturing context of that conversation.”