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be committed to fight
and die for our country
if asked to do so and to
be economically, socially
and politically developed.
Due to the failure
of our founding fathers
and our governments to
plan our future prior to
and after independence,
we are still in a state of
dependency.
We the people of Belize
go to vote every five years
and expect changes to
come within those five
years. When we elect a
UDP or a PUP government
for five years, and
we do not see any constructive
development,
we hear blames and
excuses coming from the
UDP and PUP. Because
of our loyalties to one
of these two political
parties, we continue to
accept their blames and
excuses. Our people have
not held these two political
parties accountable
for our state of living
and our nation’s deplorable
conditions. We just
continue to accept their
excuses and blames and
now it has reached the
point where we cannot
bear this burden no
more.
The time has now
come, for us to give
another political party
the opportunity to manage
our people’s affairs
and our country. Why?
Because we have given
the UDP and the PUP too
many chances. We cannot
play around with our
children, our family, our
future and our nation’s
future. There is too
much at stake. Look how
quick we are celebrating
OP-EDS
our 38th anniversary
and nothing much has
improved since.
What are we really
celebrating? Are we celebrating
our independence,
when we know that
many of our people and
nation are still dependent?
If that is the case,
then we must stop and
think. We can do better
than this and I know
we will do better. Not
only can we do better
but we must because our
backs are now against
the wall. Our country
belongs to us and not
to any political party or
a select few families and
friends. Time to give the
Belize People’s Front (
BPF), the opportunity
to govern our country
because UDP and PUP
have and is failing us day
by day.
hope: just like her father:
“The only way our world
is going to change, is that
we have it in our hearts
to be love, compassion,
strength, nurturing and
kindness,” she said, adding
that Martin Luther
King said that the children
of darkness were
much more determined
than the children of light.
In a panel on nuclear
disarmament, Jonathan
Granoff, President of the
Global Security Institute,
and UN Representative of
the Permanent Secretariat
of the World Summits
of Nobel Peace Laureates,
posed the question: “Is
it legal to annihilate the
future?” Because with the
power of today’s nuclear
weapons, they are a quick
end,” he said.
Humanity has come
very close to another
nuclear war but has
been unbelievably lucky,
according to Dr. Ira Helfand,
co-chair of the Physician’s
for Social Responsibility’s
nuclear weapons
abolition committee.
“Sooner or later our
luck will run out. It is no
longer a question of when
there will be a nuclear
war, not if there will be
one,” he said, adding that
youth today did not understand
the enormity of the
threat – greater in power
and numbers. Put simply,
today’s nuclear weapons
can annihilate the planet
in short order.
In a nod to youth’s
achievements, Mohamad
Al Jounde was awarded
the Turner Social Change
Prize, and local student
Saskia Niño de Rivera was
given the Leave Your Mark
for Peace Award.
During closing ceremonies,
delegates stated
that human rights are
non-negotiable. The final
document, the Merida
Declaration states that:
“As long as basic freedoms
are violated and gross corruption,
violence, extreme
poverty, inequality, racism,
modern-day slavery
and trafficking of persons,
discrimination, and
discrimination phobias
exist, there can be no true
peace. We proclaim that
true peace is inseparable
from the achievement of
true justice.”
To learn more and
watch archived panel discussions,
please visit the
Facebook group at World
Summit of Nobel Peace
Laureates. Also, The
World Summit of Nobel
Peace Laureates.
Belizeans backs are now
against the wall
Peace laureates call for decisive
action for world peace
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