Pulling The Plug On Benefits For Economic Citizens

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And the House also debated the abolition of the Economic Citizenship bill. This will remove the right of persons to obtain nationality through any relationship with someone who became a Belizean by economic citizenship.

Essentially, the creation of this bill allowed persons to give substantial monetary funds to the country in exchange for citizenship. And because they become nationalized Belizeans, their offspring and spouses could also claim citizenship.

But Faber stood up in the House to defend the initial bill, which he said wasn't used for any nefarious reason when the UDP were in power. Lake I area rep, Cordel Hyde begged to differ, however.