We do not change to forget our principles but to fulfill them.  We do not change to lose our identity but to keep our relevance.  For change is an important part of regaining the nation’s trust.

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Mr. Wilson was preaching to the converted as far as the Commonwealth Caribbean (including Belize) was (and is) concerned.  Governments of the people, by the people and for the people with all its human imperfections have brought significant progress to humanity.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2008

What’s Past is Prologue

We meet today to begin a new chapter.  We have to study the past to understand the present.  But to understand the future we have to learn the lessons of the past.  What’s Past is Prologue.  We have to move on.

Yes, this is a time of sober reflection and self-examination.  Not a post-mortem.  The body is not dead.  We suffered a terrible defeat at the polls.  But over 40% of the electorate kept the faith in the PUP and another 25% did not vote.  So all is not lost.  You win some.  You lose some.  And throughout its history, our party has demonstrated that we know how to win and we know how to bounce back.

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After traveling and engaging with people all over Belize through villages and towns from the Hondo in the Sarstoon, we have seen tremendous sustained development taking place across the country from North to South and East to West.

We know that agricultural production is on the increase.  Investment in tourism in dramatic and the unemployment rate has fallen from 14% in 1998 to an average of 8-9%.

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