Salaries Eat Up 95% of Youth and Sports Annual Budget

As we’ve been reporting, the Ministry of Youth and Sports is now led by Minister Anthony Mahler and Minister of State Devin Daly. Just three weeks into their new roles, they’re already making significant changes. One major focus for Mahler and Daly is figuring out how to better utilize their seven-and-a-half-million-dollar budget. Right now, a staggering seven million dollars of that goes to salaries, according to Daly. He shared more about this on the Open Your Eyes Morning Show today.

 

Devin Daly, Minister of State, Ministry of Youth

“We have mainly focused on Belize City, trying to assess the problems here in the city and then our plan is in the next week and a half to visit the other districts, but the reality is we have accessible to us, about seven and a half million between youth and sports. However, seven out of that seven and a half million is on salaries. We are using five hundred thousand between youth and sports to really bring program work and also the upkeep of facilities and utilities and all those stuff. So that is the meat of the problem. So I don’t really believe that any tax payer would be satisfied with getting that amount for real sports and youth work within this country. So I am a firm believer that no matter how good the team is or how efficient the methodology is, if we are not solving the right problem the project will eventually fail.”