Belmopan, Belize — Liberia’s Vice President, Chief Dr. Jewel Howard-Taylor, is in Belize Metropolis to hunt financial cooperation with the Belizean Authorities, exploring alternatives to reinforce Liberia’s Tourism Trade.
When approached by scores of journalists upon her arrival in Belize, Madam Howard-Taylor indicated that Liberia has wonderful potential to realize speedy financial progress and improvement when there are sustained investments within the Tourism Trade.
Based on a dispatch, the Liberian first feminine Vice President proffered that Tourism Trade is considered essentially the most in depth and fastest-growing sector globally and a key driver for socio-economic improvement.
She knowledgeable that Liberia is situated on the West Coast of the African continent, topographically recognized for its untapped ecosystem heavens and biodiversity hotspots.
“It possesses essentially the most vital remaining rainforest on the African continent with roughly 42% of the Higher Guinea Rainforest with about 350km shoreline, and maybe the friendliest climate all year long,” The Liberian Vice President famous.
Vice President Howard-Taylor lamented that regardless of Liberia’s potential to draw vacationers, the Nation’s Tourism Trade stays virtually dysfunctional and has no vital contribution to its GDP.
She then applauded Belize for its funding in Tourism which generates about USD 604.4 million yearly, accounting for about 44.7% of GDP, and has created greater than 21,000 jobs for Belizeans.
Whereas in Belize, the Vice President will function Keynote Speaker on the first-ever “She4She Champions World Summit” scheduled for March 4th to sixth, 2022.
The summit brings collectively girls and women from throughout the globe to commemorate Worldwide Girls’s Month and dialogue on girls’s and women’ empowerment, gender equality, feminine management, financial empowerment, political participation, science, and expertise.
Belize is a Central Caribbean nation on the northeastern coast of Central America. It has a inhabitants of about 419,000, the bottom inhabitants density in Central America. It borders Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south.