P.U.P. Unveils 2020 Manifesto
With all thirty-one candidates officially nominated for the November eleventh elections, the People United Party today launched its True Blu Plan entitled, “Everybody Fi Win.” The party that hopes to win the general elections is committing to bold ideas to grow the economy, improve healthcare, free access to education and provide land to first time owners. Central to the P.U.P. blueprint is the massive creation of jobs through a stimulus package. The document was presented by the candidates and the P.U.P. leader John Briceño at an event at the Biltmore Plaza this morning. Here is Hipolito Novelo with a report.
Hipolito Novelo, Reporting
The People’s United Party says it’s ready. The Blu Plan Belize manifesto was launched today and the P.U.P. says it’s bold, brilliant and Belizean. Thirty-one P.U.P. candidates filed outside the Biltmore Hotel in Belize City, taking their temperatures and sanitizing their hands before they made their way inside where they would gather to launch the party’s manifesto under the theme “Everybody Fi Win.”
Cordel Hyde
Cordel Hyde, Deputy Leader, P.U.P.
“This is not about building bridges and building. It is about building people. It is about listening to people, hearing their concerns, feeling their pain, their blighted hope, seeing is what is left when hope unborn had died. It is about dirt road, the no road, the mud flow, the broken down windows. It is about sleeping on wet floors and breathing sick air. It is about people having crocodiles for neighbors and while next door the government build a twenty five million dollars building. It is about prioritizing the people who need our help the most, about ensuring no charge is drops out of school because their parents can’t afford to pay the fees. It’s about ensuring that no one is living in a house not fit for animals, about ensuring that no one is dying prematurely from diabetes or hypertension. It is about ensuring that no one is turned away from the K.H.M.H. because they can’t pay, about ensuring that our people have the option to create their jobs, about children no longer being forced to build a shack in their parent’s yard. It’s about ensuring that we empower women and not beat women.”
The promises contained in the P.U.P.’s manifesto are bold and critics will say they are unachievable.
Cordel Hyde
“I dare to say that this document revolutionary in spots, daring. Some will say that it is impossible, it cannot be done. I say watch we.”
The P.U.P.’s manifesto focuses on a slew of social issues including public safety, agriculture, tourism, education, health, and rural life. But the P.U.P.’s top priority is to create more than fifty thousand new jobs. It plans to fast track a stimulus package and pass legislation to save jobs by protecting businesses from failing.
Kevin Bernard
Kevin Bernard, P.U.P. Standard Bearer, OW East
“The next P.U.P. government will make sure that every citizen owns a piece of land. We will prioritize first time land ownership for women, and young families.”
Oscar Mira, P.U.P. Standard Bearer, Belmopan
“With a poverty rate of fifty percent, we have become a breeding ground for crime so arresting crime and ensuring national security, ensuring safety at home and in the streets will be our priority.”
Michel Chebat
Michel Chebat, P.U.P. Standard Bearer Cayo North
“Our foreign policy will be geared towards advancing our development. To this end, we will urgently negotiate trade agreement with Mexico, Europe, Central America, Africa, Asia with a view to opening new markets for our products and investments.”
Andre Perez, P.U.P. Standard Bearer Belize Rural South
“We will secure women’s access to affordable and quality healthcare, create greater empowerment of women through the creation of economic activities, increase women access to ownership of affordable land and promote women in science and technology.”
The P.U.P. plans to rebound, renew, plant, grow and reap to create thousands of new jobs in the agro productive industry. P.U.P. Leader John Briceño says that there will be a change on November eleventh.
John Briceño
John Briceño, Leader, P.U.P.
“Our opponents clinging to power with their last political breadth, pay lips service to the importance of tour future. After twelve years and three terms their dismal record should leave us with absolutely no doubt what kind of future Belize will have without a change on November eleventh. Our talent team P.U.P. team thirty one our reflects those our party aspires to represent,, wage earners, self employed, farmers, architects, attorneys, economist, environmentalists, activists and entrepreneurs. We offer sensible solutions because we understand both the people and the problems. Indigenous and ingenious, this manifesto places the highest premium on radical social transformation. Belizeans must as a fundamental right have the chance at a wholesome education, a job at a livable wage, basic healthcare from cradle to grave and a life unthreatened by violence and crime.”
Rosanna Briceño
Rosanna Briceño, Wife of John Briceno
“He will insist that those who offer themselves work hard and treat people with respect and serve the people. That is why he set out to put this plan together. He pulled the talents of numerous persons from all walks of life. He just this to build a team that is dependable, inclusive and that will deliver results for the Belizean people, especially those who are less fortunate.”
Reporting for News Five, I am Hipolito Novelo.
