<div id="attachment_104032" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width:310px;"><a rel="nofollow" class="highslide" target="_blank" href="http://edition.channel5belize.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Belize-@-33.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-104032" title="Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington" src="http://edition.channel5belize.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Belize-@-33-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington</p></div>
<p><strong style="font-size:13px;">The thirty-third anniversary of Belize’s independence will be officially celebrated in Belmopan on Sunday. With the nation’s birthday less than four days away, we asked Minister Sedi Elrington to reflect on our growth as a nation since September twenty-first, 1981. He shared his honest observations with us, beginning with a shift in patriotism from then to now.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs</strong></p>
<p><em>“I’m not necessarily happy with the seeming absence of patriotism on the part of our people. You know every tenth and the twenty-first, I am out there marching and marching because I am proud of my country and I feel very passionate about it. But the majority of our people on the sideline just looking on, and then when I look on the day of carnival, I see all our children out there. I just think we seem to have our priorities wrong. I think this is the time where we should look at our priorities, where more of our people should be doing patriotic things rather than reveling. I am hoping that certainly all of us will have a chance to think about the future, think about the need for each of us to perform to the best of our ability and to develop this country and engage in nation building. It is a very serious business and all of us are called upon to do.”</em></p>
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<p><strong>Independence Day activities from Belmopan will be carried live on Channel Five on Sunday.</strong></p>
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<p><strong style="font-size:13px;">The thirty-third anniversary of Belize’s independence will be officially celebrated in Belmopan on Sunday. With the nation’s birthday less than four days away, we asked Minister Sedi Elrington to reflect on our growth as a nation since September twenty-first, 1981. He shared his honest observations with us, beginning with a shift in patriotism from then to now.</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs</strong></p>
<p><em>“I’m not necessarily happy with the seeming absence of patriotism on the part of our people. You know every tenth and the twenty-first, I am out there marching and marching because I am proud of my country and I feel very passionate about it. But the majority of our people on the sideline just looking on, and then when I look on the day of carnival, I see all our children out there. I just think we seem to have our priorities wrong. I think this is the time where we should look at our priorities, where more of our people should be doing patriotic things rather than reveling. I am hoping that certainly all of us will have a chance to think about the future, think about the need for each of us to perform to the best of our ability and to develop this country and engage in nation building. It is a very serious business and all of us are called upon to do.”</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Independence Day activities from Belmopan will be carried live on Channel Five on Sunday.</strong></p>
View the full article