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STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) has gained significant notoriety and momentum in recent years (Drozd, 2020).  STEM literacy highlights the vital connection between an educated STEM workforce and national prosperity and educational and political leadership.  As J. Alexander Bennett would assert, STEM education and job placement goals have been a priority in Belize over the past 70 years from the 1950s when the Belize Technical College was created by the then Colonial Government.  However, the STEM gap has continued to widen contributing to increasing the social injustice milieu of a noncompetitive work force in Belize, thereby undermining efforts to create prosperity and sustainable development.  As part of his legacy as “The Education Prime Minister”, the Hon. John Briceno is trying to change all this.  In a recent telephone conversation with Briceno on what he is calling his Government’s STEM Education Initiative in Belize the PM said that:

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