BELIZE POPULATION EXPLOSION AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CENSUS?

POPULATION EXPLOSION IN BELIZE AND AROUND THE WORLD
My brother-in-law recently coming back from Bogota had some interesting things to say about the population explosion as it effected Bogota. I haven´t been to Bogota for six years thereabouts. The last time I was there it was a city of 6 million. He describes the new city as covering the former SAVANAH, the Bogota plateau farm country now. Places he used to drive to for a country rural outing that would be done in a few hours, are now part of the expanding metropolis. Which now has a population of 10 million, an expansion of 4 million in just 6 years. Factories and industries expanding like crazy, mostly with European capital investment. The traffic is horrendous and civil engineering for roads and highways have everything blocked all around the huge metropolis, as the government of Colombia try to build the infra-structure. To think, 70 years ago, the city was about 50,000 people.
He got his dentist work done, for half the price it costs in Santa Elena Town in Belize. He also brought me a new pair of bi-focals. The optometrist in Bogota raised the price from $25 USA to $30 USA. Compared to Belize those prices were dirt cheap. Rod a neighbor in Hillview was visiting yesterday and noticed all my three pair of bi-focals on my trading room computer desks and was admiring them. He asked how much they cost and he was astounded. How can he got a set he wanted to know?
We are all familiar with the slow bureaucracy in the Belize government. Well my brother-in-law was trying to collect Social Security from over there. He spent six weeks, struggling with the bureaucracy. For a few weeks, nobody at the clerical level could even find his records. Then he got to a supervisor one week, who quickly found his records. Then he was told it would take 3 months to get his file processed and he was running out of money and had to leave and return to Belize. He has asked his old girlfriend to keep checking with Social Security for him. So beaucratic delays are not only found in Belize for you complainers.

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