I do not know if everyone who lives in Corozal shares the same sentiments as I with reference to crossing the Mexican Border since they revoked the border passes earlier this month. I know we were warned that they would change them but the way they changed it is just not practical. My border pass was renewed last year and it is a couple of years before it would have expired. Granted that they decided to change it but why could they not have waited as the cards expire? Why the rush?. If you bother to try to renew it you need to take the lines at about 4 or 5 in the morning and then wait until 9 and then at their whim they decide that they will only take 20 people and the rest get left out only to return another day. That is gross UNFAIRNESS and INSULT to us Belizeans who cannot live without going to Chetumal to do our grocery shopping and spending our money there. To add insult to injury, there is a charge of Pesos 297.00. Again I suspect it is a good way to add revenue to the country. The applications are so great that you are being asked to return in January to collect your card. Now those of us who have been unable to apply now have to take the lines to sign a document to enter the country. If the officer is in good mood, he attends very politely to you but woe to us if we get a tired and irate officer who has been stamping visias the whole day and please do not go in the evening, you are treated very unkindly. Then you are not allowed to park in front of the building that grants the visas and you have to take a walk from the parking lot across the path to this building. I am very disappointed at the whole situation but again, we cannot help but go to the Border city to shop and to relax. I just wish that the POWERS THAT BE reconsider this situation. There has to be another way to treat us the way we are being treated now. They need our economic resources and we fall prey to it. Cant they allow us to use the old cards until they expire and then have us reapply then? Would it not alleviate the humongous amount of work that is being done now? Would it not make the people on both sides happier to allow us to go through.? FOOD FOR THOUGHT MEXICAN OFFICIALS BOTH AT THE MEXICAN EMBASSY HERE IN BELIZE AND THEIR CIVIL SERVANTS ON THE OTHER SIDE.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:44:47 +0000
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