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Things have got to change in Belize. The country is crumbling under a bloated belly of corruption, poverty, mismanagement by the PUP administration, injustice, foreign interests, and complancency.

I utterly support the BTL workers, the students, and protesters. The situation in Belize has been coming undone for some time, even more so since the tax increases in February, the NTUCB strikes, and this sham of a situation over ownership of BTL btwn Prossner and the GOB.

GOB is being fined $50kUS A DAY for contempt of court having established a BTL executive board under pretense. GIVE the employees shares by proxy, establish a 401(k) investment program for those employees, GIVE BELIZE BACK TO BELIZEANS, stop cow-towing to tourists, rich foreigners, investors, and politicians. Feed and educate the children and subsize healthcare and education! Cease dependency on foreign aide!

Git up off fi rass and do something rit ere rit now for WE PEOPLE. Belize come a wreckage and fi US step in snatch it yup, UK come snatch it yup. Colonialism jack dis country fi too long, mein. TAKE IT BEK.

Print me post ya and pass it round alla Belizean brothas and sistas.

Well all that would be nice. Now, think about it, how is the government going to pay for all that stuff you want? You have very little tax base and few exports. Tourism is growing and brings in the all important dollars. These are the dollars your country must exchange for all the foreign goods your country needs, and to service its massive debt. So perhaps cowtowing to the foreigners is not such a bad idea afterall. Another good one would be to scrap your currency and go to dollars.

Eliminating the BZD is definitely an idea, but I don't agree with the assertion that tourism is the *only* viable option for Belize's economy.

If the GOB can afford a $50kUS a day fine over this BTL board nonsense, it can certainly afford to invest in domestic growth; maybe create a consortium of farmers to produce more local commondities so that Belize can import more, depend on imports less, *and* feed its people. The taxation is a choke hold because of the massive foreign debt. Even Musa admitted (a rare thing) that is was poor judgement on his part not to use a telecom model similar to those in other Carib countries. Creating a monopoly was a scam to centralize those profits into Belize (truthfully Belizean fat cats and politicos). But the damage is done cho? Were there anti-trust laws in Belize I doubt things would have gone amok.

Also, tourists like their conveniences. If they can't email, make a call, or swipe a card on holiday, they'll go someplace else with a more stable infrastructure. If Belize wants tourist dollars then the government must support that industry, which it is not and why business people in Belize gotta hustle real hard to make a go of it.

If there was more competent governance there wouldn't be so much bribery and hustle to make a go of anything in Belize.