If ever there comes a time when you can't find your driver's license - you might want to go to the City Council Compound at mile 4 on the Western Highway where there's a virtual cemetery for them.
Today, these pictures of carelessly discarded licenses went viral on Facebook. We found them at the very back of the Belize City council works department compound where some had been recently burned while others were just strewn around the fire.
City Councillor Dean Samuels went on Facebook to say that the Council has to discard licenses that accumulate over time. He said they were at the city dump - but in fact they are not.
Of course, this raises all kinds of questions about identity theft and the proper handling of private records by public authorities - but truth be told that illusion of security went out the door with city driver's license very long ago. Its security was compromised years ago - and it is only has limited acceptance as a valid identification.
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