The University of Belize held an all-day symposium on crime today.
Sounds like just one more talk shop but one of the faculty organizers Nicole
Haylock told us that they are serious about finding solutions.
Nicole Haylock, Organizer
"Well we feel that it is about time that we reach out as the University
of Belize to collaborate with the key stakeholders in the community to work
on a formidable, quantifiable reasonable plan. You know we are always talking
and talking. We know the problems, we know the causes, we even have solid solutions
but we need to execute, doing. Doing is important. Belizeans like to see things
getting done. We don't like all the talking so we believe as the University
of Belize, the national university, that we should come up with a plan, a quantifiable
plan, that so that in the next six months, in the next six years we can go back
and see what has been done, what have been accomplished, practical output. Our
mission is based on helping, leading progress. We are supposed to be a catalyst
of change and so we believe we should have a hand and education which is what
I will be talking about later in the symposium is a primary mechanism to get
change done, to provide the tools necessary to combat the problem surrounding
crime so definitely we believe that we are just as much affected and we are
a part of the stakeholders that should have a hand in making a difference."
Speakers at today's event included Chairman of CYDP Mose Hyde,
Director of Youth for the Future Dianne Finnegan, Senator Godwin Hulse, student
Karen Adolphus, Chairman of the Kolbe Foundation John Woods, and CEO in the
Ministry of National Security Lloyd Gillett.
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