Twin Towns to Receive Equal Celebration Funds  

The preparations for Belize’s forty third anniversary celebrations have commenced, and the National Celebrations Commission is ready to begin work in every municipality. Currently, all but one of Belize’s nine municipalities are P.U.P-governed, with the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena as the sole U.D.P. represented. Today, at the unveiling of Belize’s forty-third anniversary celebrations theme, Francis Fonseca, Chairman of the National Celebrations Commission, told us that all municipalities will be treated equally.

 

Francis Fonseca, Chairman, National Celebrations Commission

“They have gotten the same amount every single year for the past four years that I have been the commission. That was not the case under the previous government when the P.U.P. city councils got zero from the National Celebrations Commission. So that, for the past four years, that has been our mark. In terms of ensuring and Mayor Trapp is right here. That’s why he comes to our events because he understands that we are partnering with him and working with him. So there’s no question about that. We treat Mayor Trapp, we treat the U.D.P. Town Council the same way we treat every other Town Council.”