Editing Guinea Grass (section)

==Profession==
The people of Guinea Grass once survived by practicing subsistence farming and working in the chicle industry as chicleros and cutting mahogany and logwood for the timber industry owned by the British Honduras Estate which changed to the Belize Estate in the early 1970s just a couple of years before Belize gained independence from the United Kingdom . Since the early 1970s, most of the people in the north, including Guinea Grass, turned to the sugar industry as a factory was opened in Libertad Village and then at Tower Hill. According to the Sugar Cane Farmers Association Act of 2000 on the Orange Walk District Divisional Association Guinea Grass falls under the following district branch: Guinea Grass, Tower Hill, Shipyard, Chan Pine Ridge, Carmelita and Tiger Creek branch.

In the late 1980s after independence, with a wave of infrastructural development carrying across Belize, many labourers from the village learnt trades in masonry, carpentry, electricity and plumbing and most of the male labour force aged 35–50 are still in those trades. Many younger people now have office jobs, work with government and even have their own businesses. Many young adults who can not afford a higher education work in the tourism and hospitality industry.

Nowadays many women also work and have a professional job, something that was rarely seen 20 years ago and many house holds are now double income household.
About 45% of all household are double income households as both men and women work.