Princess Hotel donates half million for Cadet Corps

The Princess Hotel and Casino has donated half a million dollars to the Government of Belize for a programme to help young Belizeans. This morning Prime Minister Dean Barrow took possession of four cheques valued at a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars each and post dated for June through September. According to a government press release, the funds will be used to expand and strengthen the National Youth Cadet Corp located at mile twenty-one on the Western Highway. G.O.B.’s plan is to incorporate the now voluntary institution into a part of the Juvenile Justice System. As such children who come in contact with the law can be sent by the courts to the Cadet Corp as an alternative to incarceration. The teens sent to the institution will receive care, counselling, and life-skills lessons in an effort to (quote) “steer them away from unhealthy and dangerous lifestyles and guide them into becoming productive and successful citizens.”