By Zoila Palma: Following the scandal surrounding procurement of food items for the Belize Defence Force (BDF), the Prime Minister has moved to introduce a daily $17 food allowance for BDF soldiers.
“I think that what’s important is that we have very competent leadership at the BDF, CEO Francis Usher. He is really good and he was an officer in the BDF, so he understands the BDF and I allow him to and then he comes and give me report.
This month, we started, we moved away from feeding the BDF, and so we are giving them their food allowance. So, every BDF officer is getting $17 per day,” the Prime Minister explained.
The PM said that before this decision was taken, they visited the camps and the soldiers overwhelmingly agreed to this allowance.
“Secondly. What we have done is we have the commandant negotiating with food vendors to set prices and what you are coming on to sell.
And so, we are going to negotiate prices so then a number of vendors can go in and sell food during lunch break,” the PM added.
The Prime Minister said that BDF that go on patrol, receive the ration plus the $17 daily. He said that this could also allow the BDF to save.
“Very important point, CEO Usher was the one that pointed out to me, that most soldiers don’t stay on camp, they go home and so if you go home, you could bring sandwich, you could prepare your lunch, you could have savings,” the PM stated.
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By Zoila Palma: Following the scandal surrounding procurement of food items for the Belize Defence Force (BDF), the Prime Minister has moved to introduce a daily $17 food allowance for BDF soldiers. “I think that what’s important is that we have very competent leadership at the BDF, CEO Francis Usher. He is really good and
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