Tracy Panton Says There is a New UDP HQ

Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton says there is a new headquarters of the United Democratic Party in the Mesopotamia Division in Belize City. She told News 5 that the building they now occupied is owned by the vice chairman of the party, Lee Mark Chang. “He made that resource available to us. We accepted it, of course. Resources are limited. But we need to have a command centre, if you will.”

According to Panton, they have 18 standard bearers and 20 constituencies that “align themselves with the work that we are doing, and so we need to be able to, for those standard bearers and members of the executive committees, be able to come in and speak to us, or if there are lists that need to be printed, whatever is required for our readiness and preparedness whenever the elections are called.”

We also asked if having the headquarters in Mesopotamia, the constituency of Moses “Shyne” Barrow, gives the group leverage in the ongoing leadership dispute. She said that their commitment is to defend democracy within the party. “We have remained steadfast in our desire to defend our democracy internally within the party and externally. And we will continue to do that…whether we have leverage or we don’t have leverage will be determined by the people who will come out and vote on election day.

Both Panton and Barrow claim to be the legitimate leader of the UDP. The matter is now before the court.