$300,000 Supplementary Not for Early Election Preparations  

A couple of weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed a one-point-six-million-dollar supplementary allocation, and the Senate couldn’t do much to change it. Among the line items was three hundred thousand dollars earmarked for the Elections and Boundaries Department, sparking rumors that it was for early election preparations. However, the Prime Minister didn’t call for an election today and dismissed the speculation, saying people are getting worked up over nothing.

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“People the get excited over nothing. Remember the three hundred thousand, we had a by election in July and we did not present a supplementary budget to pay for it. So, we had to use other resources. So, we are paying back the monies from what we did, we advanced monies to Election and Boundaries, now we are replacing the monies we used for by elections. And I know the U.D.P wants us to get them out of their misery by calling an election so they can decide who will be the next leader. So we are going to call the election when we believe it is the right time. There is still a lot of work, as I pointed out in my presentation, thanking the Belizean people for that awesome mandate they gave us. We have done a lot but there is a lot more to do. When we say we have reduced poverty by half that does not mean everybody rich, we still have a long way to go. That is the case that we are trying to do.”