Our Meet the Mayoral Candidate series takes us tonight south, to the banana and citrus belts. In Dangriga, the mayoral seat is between two educators—one is in the classrooms and the other has retired from teaching. Both also face the same challenges to create jobs for the area which has a significantly high unemployment rate. […]
In San Pedro, twenty one candidates, including three mayoral, are running in the upcoming March fourth elections. It is the first time on the island that three slates have been nominated. Currently, the town council is in the hands of the governing party, but the race is getting particularly heated in the island where there […]
While San Pedro has three mayoral candidates, the battle for mayorship of Belmopan is between five candidates, including two independent nominees. On Wednesday, those candidates officially signed up to participate in the March fourth elections. Lost in all the fanfare on Nomination Day was the registration of Wilfredo Guerrero, an elderly resident, who is making […]
While Nomination Day is theoretically an official event, in reality it’s just a big show…and in Belize City that show in the south-side is run by the U.D.P. which controls all the seats. Collet is one of those south-side seats which is being challenged with intensity by the P.U.P.’s Yasmin Shoman who has hit the […]
On Wednesday when the United Democratic Party flexed its muscles for Nomination Day, it was an ocean of red. Well, except for one spot of blue – the government license plate on a government vehicle in that political parade. That government vehicle carried Mesopotamia Area Representative Michael Finnegan and his protégé, former mayor Zenaida Moya. […]
As far as municipal electoral politics go, today was about as important as it gets – well, with the exception of election-day…that is. Across the country, in every municipality, candidates aspiring for office were officially nominated and their names officially entered at the Elections and Boundaries Department. It’s an occasion for mass political parties to […]
This afternoon at one, the United Democratic Party flexed its Nomination Day muscles, and answer to the P.U.P.’s respectable showing that morning. Mike Rudon was in front of U.D.P. headquarters at one for a political spectacle which did not disappoint. Mike Rudon, Reporting If the P.U.P. brought out a sea of blue for the […]
One point three million dollars paid in legal and professional fees – that’s the claim in an audit done of the Belize City Council for the period 2013 to 2014. But while it’s spelled out clearly in the audit, Mayor Darrell Bradley says that it’s wrong. He claims that one point two million dollars of […]
Today, in the midst of the melee surrounding Nomination Day, the incumbent Mayor and the businesswoman, who wants to unseat him, also spoke on the issue of a mayoral debate. Both have markedly different stories where that debate is concerned, but here’s one story you can take to the bank – there isn’t going to […]
In the capital city of Belmopan, the field is crowded with as many as five mayoral candidates, who were nominated today for the upcoming elections. While the U.D.P. is the incumbent and has been in office at city hall for three consecutive terms, it is Khalid Belisle’s first run for office and so is newcomer […]
The political race in Belmopan is seeing the endorsement of mayoral candidates by powerhouses from both major parties. The U.D.P.’s Khalid Belisle, as we mentioned, is supported by area representative John Saldivar and Jose Chacon is backed by P.U.P. Deputy Leader Julius Espat. While campaign finances are another matter entirely, Espat told News Five that […]
Our team also provides coverage of Nomination Day in Orange Walk Town. The P.U.P. controls that municipality and its slate was first to be officially nominated. There was hype, plenty energy, from the candidates and the supporters of Mayor Kevin Bernard’s team. In the afternoon, the U.D.P. went out in numbers through the streets of […]
Both political parties said they were confident in the west. Now there has not been a P.U.P. town council for some time in San Ignacio, but that did not dissuade the supporters of the opposition party. Both mayoral candidates are well known; one is tested and the other is hoping to turn things around. Andrea […]
In San Pedro, candidates for three political parties were nominated. While the municipal’s issues are pretty much the same, crime is a major headache for the U.D.P. town council. A total of twenty-one hopefuls made their appearance before Election Returning Officer, Colin Griffith, and Election Officer, Miriam Codd-Pott, at the San Pedro Town Council. First […]
Today Mayor Darrell Bradley vigorously defended reports that his Council paid out over one point three million dollars in legal fees between 2013 and 2014. In fact, he took great offence that we reported it in Monday’s newscast, saying that we should have gone to him for an explanation. The Mayor is referring to an […]
But while vigorously defending himself and the Council, the Mayor was noticeably warmer towards, in his own words, his political brother Santino Castillo. In an interview done with Castillo a week ago, the Caribbean Shores Area Rep was less than charitable toward Mayor Darrell Bradley, who had expressed interest in running in that area. Castillo […]
There is a total of nine town councils nationwide; the opposition party controls three. Up north, the People’s United Party hopes to retain the Orange Walk Town Council in the upcoming March fourth elections. The battle on the ground at the mayoral level is between Kevin Bernard and political novice Yvette Liu Torres. This morning, […]
The People’s United Party launched its manifesto over the weekend…we’ll have that story coming up. But at the event, we caught up with successful businesswoman and aspiring Mayor Yolanda Schakron. Schakron also has some queries for her opponent in the upcoming Municipal Elections, and it has to do with one point three million dollars paid […]
On Saturday, the P.U.P. Belize City municipal team officially launched its manifesto, as it prepares to contest elections less than a month away. The launch was done at the ITVET compound in Belize City and the manifesto is entitled Change Begins Now. That’s a message that the team, and certainly the party, hopes will resound […]
On the podium, successful businesswoman and aspiring Mayor Yolanda Schakron also made a commitment that if she is elected, she would work for free. In the past we’ve heard aspiring teams commit to taking a cut in salary, but we’ve never had a Mayor agree to serve pro bono. Schakron says she’s made up her […]
While the P.U.P. focused, at least this past week, on the city’s manifesto launch, last week the party took two successive political hits, both in the north. Two area representatives were criminally charged on successive days. On Saturday, P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca spoke about both – first the charges against former P.U.P. leader and Orange […]
This issue of P.U.P. Orange Walk East Area Representative Marco Tulio Mendez isn’t dismissed quite so easily. Mendez has been charged with six counts of aggravated assault of an indecent nature on two minors. Following his arrest and formal arraignment last week the party immediately removed him as head of the Northern Caucus and also […]
Last week, attorney Michel Chebat was endorsed as the P.U.P.’s Standard Bearer in Cayo North. He replaces Richard Harrison, selected in December 2014 to contest the by-election in that constituency. Chebat had also expressed interest in contesting the by-election, but says he made the decision to step out because it was felt by the Party […]
Today, we spoke to Chebat as he prepared to head into the division to campaign. To the casual observer that might seem a little premature, since general elections are likely some ways off. But he has a plan, and that plan involves hitting the ground now. Michel Chebat, P.U.P. Standard Bearer, Cayo North “I […]
As we told you, Chebat was endorsed last week amid some contention from the executive of the People’s United Party. There are senior politicians who don’t believe a truly democratic party should be endorsing candidates as opposed to duking it out at conventions. Still, it was done, and Chebat told News Five that he will […]
