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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).
		The colony had enjoyed universal suffrage from 1954 and was granted full internal self-government from 1964, with George Price's People's United Party (PUP) and its anti-colonial stance initially dominating the domestic political scene.
		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.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/16/7311.htm (428 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)
		Party abbreviations: PUP= People's United Party (social-democratic, est.1950 as the
		The style of the ruler: "By the Grace of God, Queen of Belize and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth."
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Belize.html (655 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
		Judicial branch: Supreme Court, the chief justice is appointed by the governor general on advice of the prime minister
	www.dlhoffman.com /publiclibrary/factbook96/factbook/bh-g.htm (655 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)

	CNN.com - Belize re-elects prime minister - Mar. 6, 2003
		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.
		But the margin of victory for the People's United Party at Wednesday's election was down from a 1998 landslide, when it took 26 seats.
		Musa defeated fellow lawyer Dean Barrow of the United Democratic Party, who would have become Belize's first black leader.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/03/06/belize.elections.reut (469 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.
		In 1993 Manuel Esquivel of the United Democratic party became prime minister; he was replaced in 1998 by Said Musa of the People’s United party.
		Belize is bounded on the N by Mexico, on the S and W by Guatemala, and on the E by the Caribbean.
	www.bartleby.com /65/be/Belize.html (469 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
		Judicial branch: Supreme Court, the chief justice is appointed by the governor general on advice of the prime minister
	www.dlhoffman.com /publiclibrary/factbook96/factbook/bh-g.htm (276 words)

	San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year
		This government, whichever party is in power, must heed the cry of the people.
		In August 2004, the people of Belize found out that their country’s state pension fund had shelled out $3 million to cover debt guarantees to a company owned by a former government minister.
		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.
	www.sfbayview.com /012605/generalstrike012605.shtml (276 words)

	BELIZE
		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.
		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.
	iwraw.igc.org /publications/countries/belize.htm (276 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)

	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 (256 words)

	March 2003
		Belize: In parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Said Musa's People's United Party wins 21 of the 29 seats in the National Assembly, and the United Democratic Party 8.
		Finland: In parliamentary elections, the Centre Party wins 24.7% of the vote (55 of 200 seats), Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen's Social Democrats 24.5% (53), the National Coalition Party 18.5% (40), the Left Alliance 9.9% (19), the Greens 8% (14), the Christian Democrats 5.3% (7), and the Swedish People's Party 4.6% (8).
		Austria: In state elections in Niederösterreich, the People's Party wins 53.3% of the vote (31 of 56 seats), the Social Democratic Party 33.6% (19), the Greens 7.2% (4), and the Freedom Party 4.5% (2).
	rulers.org /2003-03.html (1164 words)

	Belizean - The Belize News Blog
		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 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.
		The elections are for Mayors and Councils in the two cities and seven towns of Belize.
	www.belizean.com (429 words)

	2005 Belize unrest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was also guided by anger at the ruling People's United Party for the worsening fiscal condition of the Belizian government.
		The unrest was provoked by the release of a new national budget with significant tax increases.
		Civil unrest broke out in the capital city of Belmopan in Belize during mid- January 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unrest_in_Belize_in_2005 (429 words)

	Belize National History
		Belize’s present ambassador at the UN is a controversial figure; Michael Ashcroft, a wealthy British entrepreneur (and treasurer of the British Conservative party), was the driving force behind Belize’s newly developed ‘offshore’ finance industry.
		In central Belize lay the province of Dzuluinicob, meaning "land of foreigners" or "foreign people." This province stretched from New River in the north to Sittee River in the south, and from close to the presentday Guatemalan border in the west to the sea.
		Belize argued that Guatemala frustrated the country's legitimate aspirations to independence and that Guatemala was pushing an irrelevant claim and disguising its own colonial ambitions by trying to present the dispute as an effort to recover territory lost to a colonial power.
	www.aeroflight.co.uk /waf/americas/belize/Belize-national-history.htm (9213 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 Manuel Esquivel of the United Democratic party became prime minister; he was replaced in 1998 by Said Musa of the People's United party.
		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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/belize_history.asp (721 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.
		The leading political parties are the People's United Party (1950) and the United Democratic Party (1974).
		The People's United Party won the election and are now in power.
	www.belizegifts.com /belize.htm (721 words)

	HOW WE ARE GOVERNED - PART III
		In theory, the Cabinet is responsible to the National Assembly, and through the National Assembly to the people, who may call it to account at the next general election by giving a majority to the other party.
		The executive authority of Belize is vested in the Queen and this authority may be exercised in Belize on behalf of the Queen by the Governor-General either directly or through officers subordinate to the Governor-General.
		OUR 1981 CONSTITUTION provides for a Governor-General who must be a citizen of Belize and who is appointed by the Queen to be her representative in Belize.
	www.belize.gov.bz /library/how_we_are_governed/part_iii.html (721 words)

	Belizean - Only in Belize!: Civil Unrest in Belize
		Posted by: c.flowers at January 23, 2005 10:25 PM I left Belize when I was a little boy, so as far as politics go I really don't know which party would be best suited to run the country.
		Posted by: Robert Sarnie at January 23, 2005 05:09 AM Please somebody call the Qeen of England and ask her to take back the Country of Belize again so all the people that have left the country because of the Bad goverment can move back again.
		The blame of mismanagement does not lie with the UDP or the PUP, but rather with the Beleasean people who support and elect corrupt politicans on local or national levels.
	www.belizean.com /mt-static/archives/2005/01/civil_unrest_in.html (721 words)

	Rx: Belize
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		Prior to Independence the People's United Party (PUP) proposed a blue flag with the Coat of Arms in a white...
		Belize Flag of Belize (In Detail) Coat of Arms (Full size) National motto: Sub Umbra Floreo (Latin: Under the Shade I Flourish) Location of Belize Official language English Capital Belmopan Queen...
	www.rxbelize.com /belizeflag (2461 words)

	The University of the West Indies and Belize
		Out of this period came the formation of Jamaica’s leading political parties — the Jamaica Labour Party, headed by Sir Alexander Bustamante and the People’s National Party, led by Norman Manley.
		Jamaica remained a Spanish colony until 1655 when it was captured by the British, who imported slaves from Africa to work on the island’s sugar plantations, which became the basis of the island’s economy.
		Jamaica remains a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
	www.uwi.edu /territories/jamaica.htm (356 words)

	Political
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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/political.html (5985 words)

	1991 CIA World Factbook, The
		_#_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; Belize Popular Party (BPP), Louis SYLVESTRE
		National Assembly--last held 4 September 1989 (next to be held September 1994); results--percent of vote by party NA; seats--(28 total) PUP 15 seats, UDP 13 seats; note--in January 1990 one member expelled from UDP joined PUP, making the seat count 16 PUP, UDP 12
		Head of Government--Prime Minister George Cadle PRICE (since 4 September 1989)
	www.manybooks.net /pages/usciaetext92world91a/101.html (230 words)

	March 2003
		Belize: In parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Said Musa's People's United Party wins 21 of the 29 seats in the National Assembly, and the United Democratic Party 8.
		In a radio address on March 16 Bozizé declares himself president and says that he has suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly and government.
		On March 18 Arjun Munda is sworn in as new chief minister.
	rulers.org /2003-03.html (1164 words)

	March 2003
		Belize: In parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Said Musa's People's United Party wins 21 of the 29 seats in the National Assembly, and the United Democratic Party 8.
		In a radio address on March 16 Bozizé declares himself president and says that he has suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly and government.
		On March 18 Arjun Munda is sworn in as new chief minister.
	rulers.org /2003-03.html (1164 words)

	The Belize Times Weekly Newspaper Online - BELIZE P.M. & R.O.C. PREMIER HOLD TALKS
		Premier Yu a humble farmer from his youth rose to prominence in the political world of Taiwan as a skilled administrator and “people’s man” who was one of the founders of the Democratic Progressive Party which is today the ruling party in Taiwan under President Chen Shui-Huan.
		BELIZE P.M. The Premier of the Republic of China on Taiwan Yu Shyi-Kun this morning met in Belmopan with Prime Minister Said Musa.
		Premier Yu was presented with a painting done by Benjamin Nicholas, M.B.E., one of Belize’s most outstanding artists.
	www.belizetimes.bz /news/story/1038.shtml (484 words)

	March 2003
		Belize: In parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Said Musa's People's United Party wins 21 of the 29 seats in the National Assembly, and the United Democratic Party 8.
		In a radio address on March 16 Bozizé declares himself president and says that he has suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly and government.
		On March 18 Arjun Munda is sworn in as new chief minister.
	rulers.org /2003-03.html (1164 words)

	March 2003
		Belize: In parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Said Musa's People's United Party wins 21 of the 29 seats in the National Assembly, and the United Democratic Party 8.
		In a radio address on March 16 Bozizé declares himself president and says that he has suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly and government.
		On March 13 a schedule is drawn up by which the five deputy prime ministers are to rotate as acting prime minister; according to this Covic is followed by Zarko Korac on March 17.
	rulers.org /2003-03.html (1164 words)

	Belize Government 1989 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
		Political parties and leaders: United Democratic Party (UDP), Manuel Esquivel, Curl Thompson, Dean Lindo; People's United Party (PUP), George Price, Florencio Marin, Said Musa; Belize Popular Party (BPP), Louis Sylvestre
		Branches: bicameral legislature (National Assembly--electoral redistricting in October 1984 expanded House of Representatives from 18 to 28 seats; eight-member appointed Senate; either house may choose its speaker or president, respectively, from outside its membership); Cabinet; judiciary
		Leaders: @m5Chief of State--Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952), represented by Governor General Dame Elmira Minita GORDON (since 21 September 1981); @m5Head of Government--Prime Minister Manuel A. ESQUIVEL (since 17 December 1984)
	www.theodora.com /wfb1989/belize/belize_government.html (277 words)

	HOW WE ARE GOVERNED - PART II
		This means that there are now twenty-nine electoral divisions or constituencies which are presently distributed as follows: four (4) each for the districts of Corozal, Orange Walk and Cayo, two(2) each for the districts of Stann Creek and Toledo, ten (10) for the Belize District, and three (3) for rural Belize District.
		The National Assembly, which we recall includes both the House of Representatives and the Senate, like the British Parliament, is often referred to as 'the Legislature' - the body which makes laws.
		Being detached from party control as distinct from the elected representatives, they can look at problems and subjects under discussion objectively.
	www.belize.gov.bz /library/how_we_are_governed/part_ii.html (277 words)

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