While Prime Minister Barrow has not been back in the country too long since his surgery in Cuba, he is already demonstrating his full engagement in the affairs of the country. He held a press conference on Monday, October 29, 2018 where he exercised that engagement. His first item of the day was the always-important: Belize’s economy. The Prime Minister started quoting a Central Bank memo of Friday, October 26, 2018. What stands out is that when we compare the first half of 2018 to the same period of any year since 2015, this year’s GDP growth is something to talk about.GDP_2018_02_Quarter