Posted: Wednesday, August 6, 2025. 3:33 pm CST.
The views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not necessarily those of Breaking Belize News.
By Dr. Leroy Almendarez: Belize has introduced a new design for our national currency, featuring the faces of our own heroes—those whose legacies shaped the country we are proud to call home. This transformation is more than cosmetic; it’s a bold affirmation of our identity and independence.
Cultural and National Value:
The change adds symbolic and cultural value by placing Belizean national heroes on the currency—reclaiming identity and honoring history. That’s a powerful narrative of economic sovereignty.
Let’s be clear:
Though the look has changed, everything that makes money money still stands:
- It remains legal tender, backed by the Central Bank of Belize.
- It continues to be widely accepted for transactions across the country.
- It upholds all the classic functions of money: a medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account, and standard of deferred payment.
Some reactions may be very receptive, warm, others lukewarm—that’s expected with any national shift. But this change invites us to reflect not only on the form of our money, but on its function, its purpose, and its power to express who we are as a people.
As we transact, let us do so with pride—knowing that these new notes carry more than value; they carry vision, history, and identity.
Money is not just currency. It is confidence.
And Belize’s confidence is now even more visible.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 6, 2025. 3:33 pm CST. The views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not necessarily those of Breaking Belize
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