Osmond Martinez Wins Convincingly in Toledo East

In Toledo East, Doctor Osmond Martinez absolutely dominated the race, blowing away his two opponents. Out of the five thousand, three hundred and sixty-five votes cast, Martinez secured a whopping four thousand, nine hundred and fifty-four votes. His competitors, Wil Maheia and Orlando Muschamp, only managed to get three hundred and seventy-four and thirty-seven votes, respectively. After the Returning Officer, Marion Nolberto, announced the final tally, Martinez noted that voter turnout could have been better. He pointed out that many eligible residents still haven’t registered to vote. Martinez made an appeal to those residents and shared his vision for what constituents can expect from him over the next five years.

 

Dr. Osmond Martinez, Area Representative, Toledo East

“ We have about 24, 000 people that are eligible to be registered in Toledo East. And I want to take this opportunity to ask, everyone, please go and register between July 17, after the by election to know we almost did 1,000 new register. And even after January 10th to present, it was almost a hundred new voters that got registered. But it’s important that everyone go out there and register to vote. Then that will help us, it will justify why we should have redistricting because redistricting is not asked because of the landmass, but it’s asked because of the amount of voters that you represent.”

 

Reporter

“Tell us what Toledo East  can expect from you in the next five years.”

 

Dr. Osmond Martinez

“ Work, work, work and work comes within three pillars within our plan. Um, our plan of Plan Belize 2. 0 and Plan Belize Toledo, which is compatible to Plan Belize 2. 0. And that is It’s our social protection programs. The only thing is that we will start to look at multi dimensional social protection programs, productivity because we want to move from social protection to being productive as well. Then we have to look at economic activity, you know, economic activity that will be focused on two main outcomes, income per capita and an increase in human capital.  And then infrastructure development.”