UN General Assembly
2010

development and innovation. Our Government is working towards building domestic capital through social investments, job creation, improved access to credit and combating crime and violence. To that end, we have launched project Restore Belize, which encompasses a comprehensive anti-crime initiative complemented by a socio-economic 3 10-55396 component aimed at restoring the social fabric of our society through the provision of skills training, continuing education for adults, infrastructure development and fostering civic pride. We have instituted school feeding programmes, subsidies for students of secondary schools, seed programmes for farmers and capitalization of our own development finance corporation for onward lending to entrepreneurs. The Government has also undertaken a national multiparty and multisectoral consultative process to redefine our national development objectives in our Horizon 2030 project. In addition, the Prime Minister has established a council of science advisers to better inform the Horizon 2030 process on the integration of science and technology in the national development agenda. Belize is resolutely embracing its responsibility for its national development. Our efforts are aimed towards ensuring that we achieve the type of