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	AIM25: Institute of Commonwealth Studies: Belize: Political Parties Material
		Scope and content/abstract: Manifestos, conference reports, posters, and speeches issued by the National Independence Party (British Honduras), the People's United Party (Belize) and the United Democratic Party (Belize).
		Administrative/Biographical history: Previously known as British Honduras, Belize finally became independent in 1981, the process having been delayed more by the unresolved sovereignty dispute with Guatemala (which did not recognise the new state until 1992) than by instransigence on the behalf of London.
		Archival history: The Commonwealth Political Parties Materials collection was begun in 1960-61, with special emphasis being placed then, as now, on "primary material such as party constitutions, policy statements, convention reports and election manifestos." (ICS, Twelfth Annual Report 1960-1961).
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/16/7311.htm (428 words)

	The World Factbook page on Belize, Section: Government
		Political parties and leaders: People's United Party (PUP), George PRICE, Florencio MARIN, Said MUSA; United Democratic Party (UDP), Manuel ESQUIVEL, Dean LINDO, Dean BARROW; National Alliance for Belizean Rights, Philip GOLDSON
		National Assembly: elections last held 30 June 1993 (next to be held NA June 1998); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (28 total) PUP 13 UDP 15
		Box 286, Belize City; APO: Unit 7401, APO AA 34025
	www.dlhoffman.com /publiclibrary/factbook96/factbook/bh-g.htm (428 words)

	Belize. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 2000, under the sponsorship of the Organization of the American States, Belize and Guatemala began negotiations to end their territorial dispute, and in 2002 they reached agreement on a draft settlement, which must be approved by national referendums.
		Belize is bounded on the N by Mexico, on the S and W by Guatemala, and on the E by the Caribbean.
		Belize City, the capital until 1970, is the largest city and main port.
	www.bartleby.com /65/be/Belize.html (428 words)

	Mario Profaca: Americas and Caribbean: Belize
		A labor dispute with workers for Belize Telecommunications Limited over ownership shares of the national phone system flared into clashes with police in Belize City and resulted in sabotage of phone lines that cut all telephone, fax and internet service for three days.
		A labor dispute with workers for Belize Telecommunications Limited over ownership shares of the national phone system flared into clashes with police in Belize City and resulted in sabotage of phone lines that cut all telephone, fax and Internet service for three days.
		In a compromise, the parties agreed an evenly split reconstituted Belize Telecommunication board would be sufficient pending a trial set to start May 29 over who controls the Central American phone company.
	mprofaca.cro.net /belize.html (722 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Political parties and leaders
		Anguilla United Movement or AUM [Hubert HUGHES]; The United Front or UF [Osbourne FLEMMING, Victor BANKS], a coalition of the Anguilla Democratic Party or ADP and the Anguilla National Alliance or ANA
		Botswana Democratic Party or BDP [Festus MOGAE]; Botswana National Front or BNF [Otswoletse MOUPO]; Botswana Congress Party or BCP [Otiandisa KOOSQLEDSE]; Botswana Alliance Movement or BAM [Ephraim Lepetu SETSHWAELO]
		Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally or PDCI-RDA [Aime Henri Konan BEDIE]; Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Laurent GBAGBO]; Ivorian Worker's Party or PIT [Francis WODIE]; Rally of the Republicans or RDR [Alassane OUATTARA]; Union for Democracy and Peace or UDPCI [Gen. Robert GUEI]; over 20 smaller parties
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2118.html (3104 words)

	The World Factbook page on Belize, Section: Government
		Political parties and leaders: People's United Party (PUP), George PRICE, Florencio MARIN, Said MUSA; United Democratic Party (UDP), Manuel ESQUIVEL, Dean LINDO, Dean BARROW; National Alliance for Belizean Rights, Philip GOLDSON
		National Assembly: elections last held 30 June 1993 (next to be held NA June 1998); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (28 total) PUP 13 UDP 15
		Box 286, Belize City; APO: Unit 7401, APO AA 34025
	www.dlhoffman.com /publiclibrary/factbook96/factbook/bh-g.htm (276 words)

	Belize - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Belize
		The national assembly consists of a senate and a house of representatives.
		The capital was moved in 1970 from Belize city to the new town of Belmopan.
		The PUP's uninterrupted 30-year rule ended in 1984 when the United Democratic Party (UDP) leader, Manuel Esquivel, became prime minister.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Belize (612 words)

	Untitled Document
		Prime Minister George Price of the United Party, who had led the country to independence, was replaced by Manuel Esquivel when Belize held its first national elections, on December 14, 1984.
		Belize, an independent state in northeastern Central America, is bounded on the north and northwest by Mexico, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by Guatemala.
		Belize became independent in 1981 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
	www.belizegifts.com /belize.htm (1039 words)

	CNN.com - Belize re-elects prime minister - Mar. 6, 2003
		Musa defeated fellow lawyer Dean Barrow of the United Democratic Party, who would have become Belize's first black leader.
		Voters shrugged off an education scandal to give Musa's People's United Party 21 of the 29 seats in the National Assembly, election results showed on Thursday.
		Belize, a tiny Caribbean nation known for its long barrier reef, voted for Prime Minister Said Musa in the first reelection of an incumbent since the former British colony gained independence in 1981.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/03/06/belize.elections.reut (469 words)

	BELIZE
		With a population of 200,000, Belize is the least populated nation in the Caribbean.
		In 1985, UNICEF reported that Belize had one of the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy in the Central American region, and that one of five births was a result of an adolescent pregnancy.
		The People's United Party (PUP), one of the two main political parties, won by an unprecedented margin (twenty-six out of twenty -nine parliamentary seats) in the country's August 1998 general elections.
	iwraw.igc.org /publications/countries/belize.htm (469 words)

	San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year
		In Belize City, a crowd of 800-1,000 supporters took their protests to the streets, marching from Memorial Park through some of the principal streets of Belize City to Battlefield Park, all the while hoisting strongly worded signs and singing union songs.
		Demonstrators tore paving stones off the steps of the National Assembly to hurl at the police, who were dressed in their brand new “robo-cop” uniforms.
		The Belize population is almost 32.9 percent Creole (mixed Black with white), 40.7 percent Mestizo (Indigenous and white), 6.1 percent Garifuna (Blacks originating from Africans and Caribs), 10.6 percent Maya and 9.7 percent “other,” which includes East Indians, Middle Easterners, Europeans and Chinese.
	www.sfbayview.com /012605/generalstrike012605.shtml (469 words)

	Afiwi.Com - Your Caribbean Online
		Musa was entangled in an education scandal that appeared to have no bearing on voter’s opinions, who gave Musa's People's United Party 21 of the 29 seats in the National Assembly.
		He beat fellow lawyer Dean Barrow from the United Democratic Party, who was vying to create history by becoming Belize's first black leader.
		Belize, consists of several ethnic groups like Afro-Caribbeans, Asians, Mayan Indians, mixed-blood Mestizos, and Mennonites who are of German descent.
	www.afiwi.com /news2.asp?id=2138 (256 words)

	Belize - United Democratic Party
		The colonial establishment responded to the political challenge of the PUP by founding the National Party (NP) in 1951.
		In the 1979 election, the UDP had expected to receive a boost from the recent enfranchisement of eighteen-year olds but the party was hurt by its call to delay independence for at least another ten years during an election that became a referendum on independence.
		In September 1973, the NIP, the PDM, and the Liberal Party merged to form the United Democratic Party.
	countrystudies.us /belize/77.htm (674 words)

	The Belize Times Weekly Newspaper Online - We will fight & we will win
		Coming a few weeks after the People’s United Party won a landslide victory in recent national and local elections, the PM’s speech laid the foundation for his government’s challenges in moving the nation of Belize forward despite global upheaval.
		The address given by the Prime Minister at the first session of the new National Assembly of Belize on Friday was a lesson in leadership.This is the leadership which has led the Government to its second term in office, an anomaly in the post-independence political era.
		In delivering, what has been described as a very dynamic address at the opening of the first session of the new National Assembly of Belize, the Prime Minister’s remarks were grounded in solid leadership, good governance-grounded in reality, both regional and global, yet revolutionary in aspiration and unshakeable in determination.
	www.belizetimes.bz /news/story/1867.shtml (674 words)

	Guatemala
		- Former parties: Con = Conservative; Lib = Liberal; MLN = Movimiento Nacional de la Liberación (National Liberation Movement, authoritarian); PID = Democrático Institucional Partido (Democratic Institutional Party, authoritarian); PR = Revolucionario Partido (Revolutionary Party, conservative); PRDN = Partido Democrático Nacional de Reconciliation/del Rescate (National Democratic Reconciliation/Redemption Party)
		Territorial Disputes: OAS brokered Differendum in 2002 creating small adjustment to land boundary, large Guatemalan maritime corridor in Caribbean, joint ecological park for disputed Sapodilla Cays, and substantial US-UK financial package, but agreement was not brought to popular referendum leaving Guatemala to continue to claim the southern half of Belize intact.
		Party abbreviations: Con = Conservative; Lib = Liberal
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Guatemala.htm (1804 words)

	The University of the West Indies and Belize
		The current Prime Minister is Dr. Keith Mitchell whose New National Party was re-elected in June 2000 for another term in government.
		From 1833 during the period of Crown Colony rule, Grenada was included in the administration of the Windward Islands and following the withdrawal of Barbados and Tobago from the group, became the seat of the Windward Islands Administration until 1958 when the West Indian Federation was introduced.
		History: Although ‘discovered’ by Christopher Columbus in 1498, Grenada was first settled by the French in 1650 whereafter it was ruled alternately by the French and the British until 1783 when it was formally ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Versailles.
	www.uwi.edu /territories/grenada.htm (438 words)

	John Saldivar, United Democratic Party of Belize
		He also served as President of the Belize National Basketball Association, and oversaw Belize hosting the
		Caricom games.Honorable John Saldivar is presently a doctoral candidate at Florida State University and a lecturer at the University of Belize.
		Under his leadership, Belmopan was transformed into a modern municipality, with adequate light, water, land, and infrastructure.
	www.udp.org.bz /biography_johnsaldivar.htm (98 words)

	Belize
		People's Committee, 1954 renamed PUP); UDP = United Democratic Party (conservative, est.1974 by merger of Liberal Party, National Independence Party, and People's Development Movement)
		The style of the ruler: "By the Grace of God, Queen of Belize and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth."
		OAS brokered differendum in 2002 created a small adjustment to the land boundary, a large Guatemalan maritime corridor in Caribbean, a joint ecological park for disputed Sapodilla Cays, and a substantial US-UK financial package, but agreement was not brought to popular referendum leaving Guatemala to continue to claim the southern half of Belize.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Belize.html (655 words)

	Manuel Heredia, Jr, J.P. named as United Democratic Party Standard Bearer.... Louis Sylvestre to run in Belize Rural Central
		Heredia said he received many requests from San Pedro voters to run in the national election and indicated he is very happy with the response in Caye Caulker and San Pedro.
		Manuel Heredia, Jr, J.P. named as United Democratic Party Standard Bearer....
		The 1998 election will be unique in San Pedro since both candidates were born and raised on the island.
	www.sanpedrosun.net /old/udp2.html (190 words)

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	www.udp.org.bz (18 words)

	CIA -- The World Factbook 2000 -- Political parties and leaders
		Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA Wajed]; Bangladesh Communist Party or BCP [Saifuddin Ahmed MANIK]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP [Khaleda ZIAur Rahman]; Jamaat-E-Islami or JI [Motiur Rahman NIZAMI]; Jatiyo Party or JP [Hussain Mohammad ERSHAD]
		National Democratic Party [William MIRANDA]; National Republican Party of Puerto Rico [Luis FERRE]; New Progressive Party or PNP [Pedro ROSSELLO]; Popular Democratic Party or PPD [Anibal ACEVIDA Vila]; Puerto Rican Independence Party or PIP [Ruben BERRIOS Martinez]
		political party activity is organized along largely sectarian lines; numerous political groupings exist, consisting of individual political figures and followers motivated by religious, clan, and economic considerations
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/wofact2000/fields/political_parties_and_leaders.html (18 words)

	Honduras Real Estate near La Ceiba, Roatan and Belize - Index Page
		Political parties: Liberal Party (PLH), National Party of Honduras (PNH), National Innovation and Unity Party (PINU), Christian Democratic Party (PDCH)
		Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Justice (Corte Suprema de Justica), judges are elected for four-year terms by the National Assembly
		Honduras Real Estate near La Ceiba, Roatan and Belize - Index Page
	www.mgherman.com /honduras (518 words)

	Belize Flag
		At the bottom of the seal, a banner showcases the national motto, "Umbra Floreo" or "I Flourish in the Shade (of the Mahogany Tree)." The Belize flag was adopted at the same time as their independence from Great Britain, in 1981.
		Behind them a mahogany tree, which is the national tree also, represents the importance of timber to Belize society.
		The Belize coat of arms is laid on a white circle that is directly in the center of the Belize flag.
	www.special-tplus.com /belize-flag.html (347 words)

	Belizean - The Belize News Blog
		The local elections are not usually regarded as very important for Belizeans, as the party who controls the national government, also exerts a great deal of influence control over municipal bodies.
		Some 77,000 voters in Belize's towns and cities are eligible to vote for a total of 158 candidates, mainly for the two main political parties, the ruling People's United Party and the opposition United Democratic Party.
		The elections are for Mayors and Councils in the two cities and seven towns of Belize.
	www.belizean.com (429 words)

	Channel5Belize.COM
		It's a big weekend for the ruling Peoples United Party with its national convention on Sunday in Santa Elena, Cayo, and perhaps a more important meeting of the National Party Council on Saturday in Belize City.
		The conventional wisdom says that on Saturday at the National Party Council meeting prior the convention on Sunday, the Prime Minister is going to get everyone locked in a room and say, look here this is the way it’s going to be, you all get in line.
		With women forming the backbone of both political parties but holding only one out of twenty-nine seats in the House of Representatives, we asked her where things were headed.
	new.channel5belize.com /archive_detail_story.php?story_id=13535 (572 words)

	Political parties, interest groups, and other movements around the world
		Cascadian National Party, independence for Washington and Oregon
		Third Parties '96 is a movement to build a new mainstream political party
		Conservatives Against A Federal Europe closed down when Iain Duncan Smith became leader of the party
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /parties.htm (572 words)

	Belize Flag
		However, a bi-partisan committee for the designation of the official flag of Belize, which included representatives of the UDP agreed to or rather compromised to include the red horizontal stripes (red being the dominant party color for the UDP).
		Thankfully the flag has been accepted and embraced by all Belizeans and remains the National Flag of Belize.
		A mahogany tree: the first European settlers in Belize became mahogany traders and the mahogany trade was once the economical backbone of the colony.
	www.belizephonecard.com /Belize/belizeflag.htm (465 words)

	CADwire.net - Directory > Reference > Flags > Regional
		Belize Flag - Description of the national and political party flags.
		Flag and National Symbols of Belize - Brief description and history of the flag.
		Flags of the World: Belize - Current and historical flags and ensigns.
	www.cadwire.net /directory/dir.asp?/Reference/Flags/Regional/Belize (113 words)

	Belize -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002
		In 2000, under the sponsorship of the Organization of the American States, Belize and Guatemala began negotiations to end their territorial dispute, and in 2002 they reached agreement on a draft settlement, which must be approved by national referendums.
		In 1993 archaeologists discovered evidence of a farming community in Belize dating from 2500-1100 BC The Mayas first settled in the area some 200 to 300 years later, and a few ancient Maya cities still survive.
		Rosita Arvigo, an expert in jungle medicine who apprenticed herself to a 90-year-old shaman, examines a Jackass Bitters Plant at her farm near San Ignacio, Belize.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/belize_history.asp (721 words)

	Toledo
		Toledo denied accusations he ordered his followers to forge thousands of signatures in 1998, said Xavier Barron, a congressman from the National Unity party, Peru's third-largest, and a member of the four-man committee.
		Map Toledo District The Toledo District is the southernmost district in the nation of Belize, with the district capital in the town of Punta Gorda, Belize.
		Peru's Toledo Testifies Before Congress on Fake Signatures Accusations
	bonose.com /Toledo-20.html (646 words)

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