B.D.F General Loria Says Tenure Ending Soon

Brigadier General Azariel Loria stepped into the role of commander of the Belize Defense Force, taking over from Brigadier General Steven Ortega. Now, nearly three years later, Commander Loria’s tenure is drawing to a close. At the B.D.F.’s forty-seventh anniversary, Loria looked back on his time as commander and shared his plans for the force in the months leading up to the change of command.

 

Brigadier General Azariel Loria, Commandant, B.D.F.

“ There will be a change of command. The commander of the Belize Defense Force is bound to a contract of four years. I started my contract about three years and a couple of months now going. It should finish on the twenty-first of December of this year. After which it could be extended. If I decide to ask for an extension or the ministry decides to keep me back the Ministry of Defense. But that is something that will be negotiated thereafter. I am talking about my tenure here. Four years. There will be a change of command. Of course, I don’t think I will be asking to extend us the commander of the buildings defense force. That will be going for sure. But then we will be productive until the last day, until the last day. I am a public servant, first and foremost, and I have to give my utmost best for the benefit of Belize, to ensure that we have a good organization in order that we can provide a service which is to security the borders to and the territorial sovereignty of Belize.”