And from policing to politics, nomination day is next week Wednesday. As we have shown you in the past there are usually large parades, motorcades and all types of revelry - kind of like a political carnival - especially in the city with its 10 divisions.
But this year there won't be any of that due to COVID - and the officer commanding eastern division has been meeting with the political parties this week to make sure there are no political crowds. The Commissioner says motorcades are a definite "no":
Cherisse Halsall
"Sir in terms of nomination day and the motorcade that normally take place and what are the advising the political parties?"
Chester Williams - Commissioner of Police
"Well my thing is that, there has been some political parties who have been asking for motorcade and I have said to my commanders that we must not treat any political party different than we treat the others. Whatever is done must be done across the board for all political parties and so if it is that there want to have a motorcade, I've asked Mr. Rosado to meet with the chairman of the PUP, the UDP and the other party, BPP in Belize City and let them come up with a consensus in terms of whether or not they want to have a motorcade and if it is that they want to have a motorcade, I will have no objection to it providing however, that the motorcade will not be no more than 10 people and when they get to the nomination centre, the only persons to alight any vehicle is going to be candidate and who are going to nominate him. No other person must be allowed to exist the vehicles at the nomination centre. When they are done, if they want to take a drive around in the motorcade and go back to their respective office, then we can work with that but we do not want anything that is going to attract any mass gathering, anywhere, so that is how we want it to be."
