A Bill for the Diaspora to Participate in the I.C.J. Referendum
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Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics
For the latest news across Belize, visit: http://edition.channel5belize.com/ In July, Prime Minister Dean Barrow met with representatives of the diaspora to discuss the two-month residency requirement to re-register to vote in the April 2019 referendum. Belizeans living overseas say it is a requirement that they can’t satisfy and up to now, there has been no ‘common ground’ solution to disenfranchisement of the diaspora. P.U.P.’s Caribbean Shores Area Representative, Kareem Musa, is taking the matter to the House of Representatives and has drafted a bill which seeks do temporality suspend the two-month requirement to give the Belizeans the opportunity to vote on a issue of huge national importance. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo reports.
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