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1998 Belizean General Election
General elections were held in Belize on 27 August 1998.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p104 The result was a victory for the People's United Party, which won 26 of the 29 seats and Said Musa was elected as prime minister for the first time.Unofficial election results of twenty-nine constituencies Channel 5 Belize, August 28, 1998. (accessed 5 October 2014) Voter turnout was 90%, the highest since independence. Background The ruling United Democratic Party (UDP) was ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Representatives (Belize)
The House of Representatives of Belize is the lower chamber of the National Assembly of Belize, National Assembly, the other being the Senate of Belize, Senate. It was created under the Constitution of Belize, 1981 constitution. Members are commonly called "Area Representatives". Area Representatives are elected by winning a majority of votes in their respective Constituencies of Belize, constituencies under the First-past-the-post voting, first-past-the-post system. The body is directly descended from the British Honduras Legislative Assembly created in 1954 with nine elected members. It has been expanded several times since: to 18 in 1961, 28 in 1984, 29 in 1993 and finally to 31 in 2008. The leader of the majority party in the Belize House typically becomes List of Prime Ministers of Belize, Prime Minister of Belize. Current members of the House of Representatives by district The elected representatives and their constituencies according to the Elections and Boundaries Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Singh
George Bawa Singh (May 1937 – 9 March 1999) was a Belizean judge who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1998 and as a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court from 1991 to 1998. He previously served as Solicitor General and Director of Public Prosecutions. Early life Singh was born in May 1937. His father Bawa Singh Mann was a Sikh who had immigrated from India in the 1930s. Singh himself converted to Christianity. He graduated from Wesley College in 1954. That same year, he wrote three poems: "Dawn", "Dusk", and "Soliloquy of a Murderer". He received the Gold Medal for the last one in a national poetry competition. Career After his graduation, Singh briefly worked as a primary school teacher before joining the public service in 1955. Starting as a clerk, he eventually became a customs inspector. Looking for a change in career, Singh entered the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica, where he graduated in 1978. Singh held the posts of Solicitor Gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Reality Truth Creation Party
The National Reality Truth Creation Party was a minor political party in Belize. It contested the 1998 and 2008 elections but failed to win a seat in either.Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p106 The party appears to be a pet project of Jorge Ernesto "Prophet" Babb and Ebony Babb, which ran exclusively in Belize City. Jorge ran in Lake Independence in 1998 and Freetown Freetown () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, e ... in 2008, while Ebony ran in Queen's Square in 2008. Jorge's 19 votes in Freetown in 2008 (0.69%) constituted the party's high water mark. References Defunct political parties in Belize {{Belize-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Democratic Party (Belize)
The People's Democratic Party was a minor political party in Belize led by Estevan Perera.People's Democratic Party Caribbean Elections History The party was founded in 1995. In the 1996 Belize City Council elections they received 3% of the vote. They subsequently contested the 1998 general elections, fielding 14 candidates for the 29-seat House of Representatives.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belize National Assembly 1998
Belize is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a maritime boundary with Honduras to the southeast. Part of the Caribbean region, Belize is a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Commonwealth Caribbean, the historical British West Indies. The Maya civilization spread into the area of Belize between 1500 BCE and 300 CE and flourished until about 1200. European contact began in 1502–04 when Christopher Columbus sailed along the Gulf of Honduras. European exploration was begun by English settlers in 1638. Spanish Empire, Spain and Kingdom of Great Britain, Britain both laid claim to the land until Britain defeated the Spanish in the Battle of St. George's Caye (1798). It became British Honduras, a British colony in 1840, and a Crown colony in 1862. Belize achieved its independence from the United Kingdom on 21 September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belize Elections And Boundaries Commission
The Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) is the primary electoral body in Belize. It supervises all local and national elections. The commission also establishes the boundaries of Belize's electoral divisions. Formation and duties The EBC was formed in 1978 to oversee Belizean elections according to the Representation of the People Act. This Act became part of the Belize Constitution in 1981. The commission maintains a database of Belizean voters and periodically informs the nation on the state of the voter's list. It also occasionally makes proposals to revise boundaries in order to maintain near equality in voting divisions. There are currently 31 electoral divisions in Belize. The EBC has a chairman and four other persons on its board. The chairman and two members are appointed by the governor-general on the advice of the prime minister after consultation with the leader of the opposition; the remaining members are appointed similarly, with the concurrence of the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cayo West
Cayo West is an electoral constituency in the Cayo District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2025 by Mugiel Gurrea of United Democratic Party (UDP ). Profile The Cayo West constituency was one of 10 new seats created for the 1984 general election. Cayo West consists of an area in west-central Cayo District abutting the Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...n border. The border town of Benque Viejo del Carmen is the constituency's main settlement.Belize election maps Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive. (accessed 20 November 2014) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amin Hegar
Amin may refer to: People * Amin (name), a masculine given name and also a surname * Al-Amin, sixth Abbasid caliph, who ruled from 809 to 813 * Amin (Qing dynasty), Imperial Prince of the Qing Dynasty * Idi Amin (c. 1925–2003), military ruler of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 Other uses * Amin, Kurukshetra, now known as Abhimanyupur, a village in Haryana state, India * AMIN, or Anak Mindanao, a political party in the Philippines * "Amin" (song), a song by Anna Vissi * AMIN Worldwide, an alliance of independently owned advertising agencies * ''Amin'' (film), a 2018 French drama film * Amen in religion * Amin, an arbitrator who assessed and collected revenue in the Parganas * Anies Baswedan's partnership with Muhaimin Iskandar in the 2024 Indonesian presidential election, titled "AMIN" See also * Amine (other) * Amen (other) * Amina (other) Amina is a female given name. It may also refer to: People and fictional characters * Amina bint Wahb (), t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erwin Contreras
Erwin Rafael "Winchi" Contreras (born 9 July 1966) . (accessed 19 November 2014) is a Belizean politician and former . From 2008 to 2012 he was the Minister of , Commerce, Industry and Consumer Protection in Belize. After the 2012 election he was made Minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesopotamia (Belize House Constituency)
Mesopotamia, sometimes abbreviated as Mesop, is an electoral Constituencies of Belize, constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives (Belize), House of Representatives of the National Assembly (Belize), National Assembly of Belize since 2025 by Lee Mark Chang of the United Democratic Party (Belize), United Democratic Party (UDP). Profile The Mesopotamia constituency was created for the 1961 British Honduras general election, 1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. It currently comprises much of central Belize City, surrounded by the Collet (Belize House constituency), Collet, Queen's Square (Belize House constituency), Queen's Square and Albert (Belize House constituency), Albert constituencies.Belize election maps Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Finnegan (Belizean Politician)
Michael Kwame Finnegan (born Michael Myvett, c.1951)"Faber challenge to Gapi gets rougher" '''', 28 December 2012. (accessed 19 November 2014) is a an and a member of the United Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Housing and Urban Development in Prime Minister |
Queen's Square (Belize House Constituency)
Queen's Square is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2025 by Hon . Godwin Haylock of the United Democratic Party. Who with Tracy Panton leaderahip . Profile The Queen's Square constituency was one of 10 new seats created for the 1984 general election. It occupies a southern portion of central Belize City, bordering the Collet, Mesopotamia and Port Loyola constituencies.Belize election maps Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive. (accessed 20 November 2014) A UDP stronghold, Queen's Square is the only constituency in the Belize District which has never been won by the |