I am writing to you to request a meeting on what I, and other Belizeans, consider an urgent need for land reform, to take place on Tuesday of next week,  March 12 2013.

On Tuesday of last week, a group of around 150 Belizeans, lead by the Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association, marched 3 times around the National Assembly, calling on the lands department for transparency, accountability and land for Belizeans with need.

Using the text to email service which we set up for this cause, just over 125 persons also sent direct messages to the lands department registering their discontent with the system of distribution practiced in this country.

I have not yet received the tally for the signatures collected in the paper based petition, but I have no doubt that the number is well over the 306 signatures received in the online petition.

I am told these numbers matter when one is trying to make a political statement, but this is not a political statement; it is an urgent moral appeal for collaboration to correct a system nationally known to be the source of countless and continuing social (and moral) injustices.

The map attached shows the 2004 cumulative result of the land grabs, about which you yourself have spoken out against on the floors of the national assembly. I shudder to think what the 2013 map would look like realizing the small fraction of Belizean people it would represent. 

Please, allow representatives of BGYEA and its social partners an audience with you this coming Tuesday to deliver and discuss the attached ‘National Land Reform Collaboration Agreement‘.

Thanking you in advance,