So with light bills coming down - and a number of loans coming on stream to fix up Belize city, doesn't it seem like the table is being set for an early General election?
The PM let on that it may be early, but no time soon:
Prime Minister Dean Barrow - Prime Minister of Belize
"I'm not going to play that game, although, there seems to be a very tempting invitation from the other side. When they went to the House for the 9th amendment, they did not issue forth their usual call for elections. But I see, since then, Mr. Fonseca's enthronement has produced a reversion to type, and he is saying, 'Yes, call the elections now.' Well, if we do call it, nobody can say that we are taking advantage of them, because they say that they are ready. But I know that we haven't made any decision along those lines. The better thinking at this juncture would certainly be that we await the results of the municipal elections, which we are confident of winning and then use that as a spring board for the General Elections. It does remain a wide-open question, although, I repeat that as of now, the thinking now is to 'whap them' first at the municipal elections and then 'whap them' again in the General Elections thereafter."
