Ralston Frazer is Shyne’s Standard Bearer for Belmopan  

Ralston Frazer is a familiar face to Belmopan residents. As the former City Administrator and a past councilor, he’s now stepping up as the standard bearer for Belmopan under Moses “Shyne” Barrow’s leadership. Today, he told News Five that he’s been a loyal U.D.P member for many years and feels it’s time to serve the community in a new way. We asked him about his chances, especially with his party in disarray and an election likely less than a year away.

 

Ralston Frazer, U.D.P. Standard Bearer, Belmopan

“With God, all things possible, humanly speaking, and according to the current situation, under which the UDP exists and so forth, one would more than likely conclude that our chances of winning is not very good, but I firmly believe, like have been seen before in history, in political arenas, including in Belize, the political party, things can turn, a switch can be flipped and things can turn, and the UDP can become a quite formidable entity over the next, I don’t know, whatever month for whenever the PM calls election. So I think the chances of winning is always left to a day to day situational position. If can get ourselves together, I firmly believe within the next month, two months, I believe, if we have that much time, I believe we can, we can make a mark. But the UDP is going through a lot of internal warfare right now. Unfortunately, yes. And so the voters are saying out there, well, it’s not even a strong opposition. How will it make a strong government?  Well, I’ll tell you this. When a strong person is sick, the strong person has become not strong because he or she is sick, but with the right medication, with the right doctors, with the right prognosis and so forth, that person can recover and can recover quite speedily and become that strong person that they were just days before they got sick. So for me, being weak is not a permanent state. Being weak is a situation that can change with the correct importation of what you need.”