And finally from the Senate meeting, PUP Senator Valerie Woods took the opportunity to shed light on the issue of domestic violence and highlight the concerning case of missing woman Anisha Young. Woods calls for more legislation to be passed on these issues.
Hon. Valerie Woods, PUP Senator
"We also have a choice to bring domestic legislation that reaches a wider audience, and I close, Mr. President inciting the reasons, or names of persons, [showing] why we should have had more than just this legalization in these last final months of 2018. Those are: Josephine Hamilton, age 30, of Punta Gorda, Maria Yazmin, 34, of Trial Farm, Roxanne Pop, age 33, Belize City, Marcia Downs, age 37, Belize City, Hermelinda Emmanuel, age 46, Belize City, and prayers and thoughts, of course, going out to the young Anisha Young, age 23. Mr. President, I site that because this been a year we've been called to senate meetings with the extreme difficult environment, social environment and legislation is not coming before the senate to address those. I hope and I put on record that for 2019, we can all do a better job to encourage legislation to address domestic issues as much as we must address the issues of foreign."
Hon. Godwin Hulse, Government Senator
"This is a serious thing, we now have another woman again, a young girl who they're looking everywhere for. I saw, even when I was in River Valley, a lot of people looking, this is sad, very very sad in our country and I am sure that the attorney general's ministry has been working and so are these legislations. There's a whole slew of them that's coming up to try to address some of these things, but it goes a little bit beyond that. It goes to the conscience and the concepts of our people and how we train our people and how we are bring up young people."
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