Late this evening, News Five caught up with Prime Minister John Briceño at an event right here in Belize City. With the controversial Thirteenth Amendment Bill stirring debate across the country, we asked the PM to weigh in. His response? Direct and telling. Here’s what he had to say.
Prime Minister John Briceño
“I could understand the concern from everybody else. If these other legal scholars can show us how it can be done differently, we’re prepared to take a look. But the problem is that we have a serious problem with crime and it’s something that requires the attention and the cooperation and the work of everybody, not only the police, as the government, but also the public. And as much as we’ve been doing everything we can to try to stop these killings, these mostly young men, they don’t seem to get it. And what’s even worse, is that when they would go in a public space and just spray bullets and then innocent people get hurt. So we have to do everything possible to stop them.”
