Last week, we gave you extensive coverage on the Government's attempt to once again include the youth population in the process of policy making.
That's the National Youth Council, and today, the Department of Youth Services officiated elections in the 6 districts for young men and women offering themselves to take on one of 4 political posts.
From the persons elected in these District chapters, a group of executive leaders will be chosen to head the National Youth Council. Today's elections marked the furthest step that this idea of youth in Government has reached.
Today, we stopped by and spoke with one of the officials from the Department of Youth Services:
As you heard in our interviews with a few of the Belize District aspirants, they conceded that this election process only allows a very small fraction of the youth population to choose the youth leaders they want to advocate for them. Today, while we had the opportunity, we asked the representatives of the Department of Youth Services about this appearance of exclusion in such an important democratic process. Here's how she answered that question:
The results are in, but the Department of Youth Services has promised to release them tomorrow. We'll share them with you in tomorrow's newscast.
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