By Breaking Belize News Staff: Prime Minister John Briceño has attributed the recent rise in social violence in Belize to a decline in parenting, saying the country has lost the kind of discipline that once kept young people in check.
His comments followed a difficult stretch that included the murders of a doctor and a 15-year-old, along with a series of shootings. The Prime Minister acknowledged that citizen security remains a major challenge for his administration. “One murder is one too much,” he said, adding that the government has been doing its best to keep crime under control.
Briceño credited the State of Emergency (SOE) with helping to calm much of the violence, but said the killings now occurring are largely disputes between individuals that are difficult to police. “You can’t put a police man in every corner,” he noted.
The Prime Minister argued that the deeper problem lies in the home. He said Belizeans are not the parents they once were, recalling that as a child he received a whipping from his father for calling a woman a “white roach.” Today, he said, parents often get upset when someone corrects their child, a shift he believes has eroded discipline in communities and shaped how young people behave as adults.
Briceño also pointed to Barbados, suggesting that Prime Minister Mia Mottley “is onto something” with her proposal to set up parenting clubs to help families. Reflecting on his own upbringing, he said the old saying that “it takes a village to raise a child” captured what once worked.
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By Breaking Belize News Staff: Prime Minister John Briceño has attributed the recent rise in social violence in Belize to a decline in parenting, saying the country has lost the kind of discipline that once kept young people in check. His comments followed a difficult stretch that included the murders of a doctor and a
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