United Democratic Party - Stability in the future

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PM New Year Message 2011 by Hon. Dean Barrow
19.01.2011

My fellow Belizeans:

When I welcomed 2010, I tried in a particular way to mark the sense of purpose, promise and possibilities that a new year always brings. I said then that the worldwide recession, which had begun to swamp Belize in the second half of 2009, would run its course; that our economic difficulties would peak and decline by the end of the year.

Well, I am happy to report that I was right. Here is what the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance had to say:"in the first half of 2010 most Caribbean countries reported negative or low growth rates, the exceptions being Belize (3.5%), Guyana and the Netherlands Antilles (0.8%)." Now the figures for Belize's third quarter are in. And our Statistical Institute has revised that mid...

PM Christmas Message 2010 by Hon. Dean Barrow
19.01.2011

My Fellow Belizeans:

The pleasures of the Christmas season are with us and we delight once more in this most wonderful time of year. It is a time when squalor and ugliness and brutality have the best chance of being redeemed. It is a time when our noblest instincts come to the fore; when our humanity is pre-eminent; when we each try to become personal salvation armies and give to the poor and prepare meals for the hungry and bless the children. Of all the treasures of Christmas, none is more satisfying than the joy of sharing.

PM New Year's Message by Hon. Dean Barrow
10.02.2010

My fellow Belizeans:

The sense of anticipation and resolve with which we greet every New Year, is even more acute this time. That is because now we are also celebrating the start of a new decade. And our consciousness of the power of faith and endeavour, is always heightened when we mark another milestone in the march of time and progress. There is thus a special awareness of the indomitability of the human spirit that the conjunction of New Year and New Decade brings. This will be most welcome in Belize as our country steels itself to deal with the challenges of 2010.

Statement by Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize at Inaugural Ceremonies of the National Assembly by Hon. Dean Barrow
14.03.2008

I borrow from the words of an American President who, surveying the wreckage of his predecessor's administration scattered all aross the political landscape, consoled his nation with the assurance: our national nightmare is over.

With gratitude to the people of this country, I rise to report to you today, that here in Belize finally our long nightfall too is lifted. Together with the shade of the poet, Raymond Hugh Barrow, we welcome the sun, once again a barefoot boy skipping cross the sky. And we rejoice with him as he sounds his cry: get up, get up, the day is here, a new day is here.

And it is all because, from north to south, east to west, a nation fed up with the plunder of its resources, on February 7 declared enough ...

Message by the Hon. Dean Barrow by Hon. Dean Barrow
27.05.2007

My Fellow Belizeans, this is a transformational moment in the history of our country, a time when, more than ever, all of us are so very proud to be Belizean. Yesterday, all the social partners went on record to say a resounding "no" to the infamous UHS arrangements that the Prime Minister wishes to push through the House. Teachers, Public Officers, Doctors, Nurses, electricity workers, water workers, communication workers, trades people, housewives, students - all will descend on Belmopan tomorrow to tell the Prime Minister that his motion shall not pass. The Private Sector has agreed to a countrywide shutdown, and the nation is united as never before in defense of Belizean rights.

All of us giv...

Address to the Nation by Hon. Dean Barrow
09.05.2007

Fellow Belizeans, I come before you now to express the United Democratic Party's complete disgust at the Prime Minister's response to the public outrage over his Universal Health Services scandal.

That response is the farthest thing from the admission of wrong, expression of contrition, and plea for forgiveness that the circumstances demanded. Rather, it is a continuation of the Prime Minister's deception on the issue, mixed in with a defiant determination to force the taxpayers, at any cost, to repay the UHS debt.

The Prime Minister claims, first of all, that his secret signing of this unlimited sovereign guarantee for a private debt, is nothing out of the ordinary. Indeed, he says, past Ministers of F...