Said Wilbert Musa is a Belizean lawyer and politician. He was the Prime Minister of Belize from 28 August 1998 to 8 February 2008.
The People's United Party (PUP) is one of two major political parties in Belize. It is currently the governing party of Belize after success in the 2020 Belizean general election,winning a majority of 26 seats out of 31 in the Belizean House of Representatives. It is a centre-left Christian democratic party. The party leader is Johnny Briceño,who currently serves as the Prime Minister of Belize.
Sir Manuel Amadeo Esquivel was a Belizean politician. As leader of the United Democratic Party,he served as Prime Minister from 1984 to 1989,and then again from 1993 to 1998. His party's victory in 1984 was the first time an opposition party had won a general election in Belize.
John Antonio Briceño is a Belizean politician who is the 5th and current Prime Minister of Belize since 12 November 2020,and the leader of the People's United Party (PUP) since 2016. He was Leader of the Opposition from 2008 to 2011 and from 2016 to 2020. From 1998 to 2007,he served as Deputy Prime Minister under Prime Minister Said Musa.
Godfrey P. Smith is a Belizean jurist,attorney and politician. A member of the People's United Party (PUP),Smith is a former member of the Belize House of Representatives.
Amandala is a Belizean tabloid newspaper. Published twice weekly,it is Belize's largest newspaper. Amandala was established in 1969 as the print organ of the now-defunct United Black Association for Development (UBAD),but has been politically independent since the mid-1970s. Its offices are located at 3304 Partridge Street in Belize City.
Belize municipal elections,2006 were a series of local elections held on March 1,2006,to fill vacancies for town councils in Corozal,Orange Walk,San Pedro,San Ignacio,Benque Viejo,Dangriga,Punta Gorda,Belize City and Belmopan. All the councils except Belize City elected one mayor and six councillors;Belize City elected one mayor and ten councillors.
Vision Inspired by the People (VIP) is a political party established in December 2005 in the Cayo District of Belize. It first contested municipal elections in the capital city of Belmopan on 1 March 2006,receiving 20 percent of votes cast but none of the seven seats. VIP operates primarily in Belmopan,but also has a presence in the Belize and Corozal Districts.
General elections were held in Belize on 7 February 2008. Beginning with this election,Belizeans elected 31 members to the House of Representatives of Belize instead of 29. In what was considered an upset,the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) won the election with 25 out of 31 seats;the ruling People's United Party won six.
Philip Stanley Wilberforce Goldson was a Belizean newspaper editor,activist and politician. He served in the House of Representatives of Belize as member for the Albert constituency from 1965 to 1998 and twice as a minister. Goldson was a founding member of both of Belize's current major political parties,the People's United Party (PUP) in the 1950s and the United Democratic Party (UDP) in the 1970s. He was also the leading spokesman of the hardline anti-Guatemalan territorial claims National Alliance for Belizean Rights party in the 1990s.
Zenaida Victoria Moya is a former mayor of Belize City,Belize,first elected in elections held in March 2006. She is a former member of the United Democratic Party (UDP). Moya was Belize City's first female mayor.
Dean Russel Lindo was a Belizean attorney and politician. He was one of the principal founders of the United Democratic Party in 1973 and served as its first leader from 1974 to 1979.
The Kremandala Show is a Belizean political commentary talk show airing on Krem Radio and Krem Television. It premiered in 1994 on radio and 2005 on television and was hosted by KREM founder Evan X Hyde.
Michael Kwame Finnegan is a Belizean politician and a member of the United Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Housing and Urban Development in Prime Minister Dean Barrow's cabinet. He was a member of the House of Representatives,representing the Mesopotamia Electoral Division in Belize City from 1993 to 2020. Finnegan hosts the television show Mek Wave and Lik Road.
Francis William Fonseca is a Belizean politician who served as leader of the People's United Party (PUP) and as Leader of the Opposition of Belize from 2011 to 2016. First elected to the Belize House of Representatives from the Belize City-based Freetown constituency in 2003,Fonseca served as Attorney General and Minister of Education,Culture and Labour in Prime Minister Said Musa's cabinet until February 2008,when the PUP lost the general election to the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP). Fonseca was one of only six PUP representatives nationwide to retain his seat in the National Assembly in the 2008 election.
Joseph Mahmud is a Belizean politician and a member of the People's United Party (PUP). He was elected March 2012 as Area Representative for the Cayo North constituency in the Cayo District.
General elections were held in Belize on 4 November 2015 to elect members of the House of Representatives. On 28 September 2015 Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced that he had advised the Governor-General to dissolve the National Assembly and to fix Wednesday 4 November 2015 as the date for the next general elections.
General elections were held in Belize on 11 November 2020 to elect the 31 members of the House of Representatives. Nomination day was 21 October.
Assad Shoman is a Belizean diplomat,lawyer,historian,and former government minister. He currently serves as a leader of the Belizean delegation to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the purpose of resolving the longstanding territorial dispute between Guatemala and Belize.
The Ministry of Finance is a government ministry of Belize responsible for public finances. Traditionally,Prime Minister of Belize has also held the portfolio of Minister of Finance.
