Commentary: Oh Belize

While the news in Belize on any given day is normally drab and depressing, this past Monday’s newscast by any measure was downright petrifying.  Two persons beheaded in Cayo, a mother gunned down with young infant strapped on her back, a Police Officer walks into a prison cell and executes a detained man and heavily armed gunmen open fire upon a permanent Police Checkpoint.  My GOD, is this really the Belize that we grew up in?

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