We caught up with Musa yesterday while he and his team were campaigning on Baymen Avenue:

Kareem Musa, PUP Standard Bearer - Caribbean Shores
"Today Daniel was our last fail preparations for the campaign leading up to the general elections on November 4th which is only one month away. But I can tell you that since June of last year, over a year and a half, this team has been on the ground campaigning in Caribbean Shores. We have hit the streets running from since then and we haven't turned back. So this is now just the final preparations and we are fully confident. All our members are excited. The energy level is extremely high right now and we will deliver Caribbean Shores to the People's United Party."

"Today we are actually unveiling and launching our manifesto which I would love to share with you and with the residents of Caribbean Shores. Of course the party is coming out with a national manifesto, but we do have a localized manifesto and that was born out of the responses that we have gotten from the residents of Caribbean Shores and I can tell you high on the priority of concerns is the fact that they have had an absentee representative for the last 8 years in Caribbean Shores. The UDP has had 8 years and they have done absolutely nothing for the people of Caribbean Shores and so they want someone who is accessible, someone who is approachable, someone that actually cares for them and that is what Team Kareem brings. We bring caring compassionate leadership to Caribbean Shores."

Daniel Ortiz
"You name Musa. That's a political brand name. A PUP brand name, but also it has its own negative connotations as well where some persons still remember the former Musa administration, you dad. How do you differentiate yourself from Said Musa?"

Kareem Musa, PUP Standard Bearer - Caribbean Shores
"I am my own man Daniel. Yes I am my father's son and he did a lot of good for this country. Let's not forget that. And certainly any prime minister, whether it's Dean Barrow, whether it's Said Musa, whether its Manuel Esquivel - any of their children would have a hard time. Because when you are prime minister you have to make decisions and certainly some of those times the decisions might not be the right ones. But people know who I am. I have proven myself both professionally in my legal practice of representing the oppressed and the downtrodden. I have proven myself politically and personally to my people of Caribbean Shores."

Daniel Ortiz
"Has it generated any kind of negative responses from your voters that you are Said Musa's son?"

Kareem Musa, PUP Standard Bearer - Caribbean Shores
"Absolutely none. I cannot point to one single person on this campaign trail in Caribbean Shores who has ever said that to me."

About, an hour ago, we also got a chance to see his political opponent, two time Mayor Darrell Bradley, in action, and we asked him how it's been going:

Darrell Bradley, UDP Standard Bearer - Caribbean Shores
"We've been in the area for about 4 months actively trying to court the vote of the people of Caribbean Shores and it's been electric. Of course we have to step up the game substantially. Since the Prime Minister called the election, we've been going on every day. Primarily residents of Caribbean Shores are at home in the evening when they come from work. Last night we were out pretty late going house to house meeting with people, engaging with them. A lot of people invite you into their homes, they want you to it down, they want you to have interaction with them, they are asking you a lot of questions - very detailed in relation to some of the things you did at City Hall, your vision for Caribbean Shores. What you want to do for them in the area and how you will engage them as members of the community and one of the things that I must say is that that kind of interaction is very enticing to me and it's something that motivates me as a candidate - that you see how much the residents of Caribbean Shores really want to see a better community and they want their candidate to explain to them in detail what my vision is for the development of this area and how I will contribute to a better country in central government."

"I will be humble with this and I will be sincere in saying that rarely we have a negative comment. Of course people will raise their concerns, they will give advice which I take in a good spirit, constructive criticism in areas where I could improve in my leadership, but by and large people really respect the work that you've done and in relation to what we are saying, its not about promises, it's not about things that you are telling people you are going to do in the future. Judge me based on what you see this city has been doing over the last 3 years - a tremendous amount of work."

Daniel Ortiz
"Do you take any issue with persons suggesting that you have an unfair advantage because you directed some of the works into Caribbean Shores before announcing that you intended to run here?"

Darrell Bradley, UDP Standard Bearer - Caribbean Shores
"Nobody directs works in a particular area. If you look at the improvements in the city, the majority of the work in Belize City under the City Council and in partnership with the central government occurred in areas other than Caribbean Shores. The most expensive infrastructure was the Central American Boulevard, it was the improvements in Collet Canal, it was the Lake Independence Bridge, it was the improvements that the City Council did in the downtown area in terms of concreting all the roads. It was Freetown Road, Queen Street - all of those developments occurred prior to any work in Caribbean Shores. Because we rollout the municipal bond in the way that we did, it benefits people and I think nobody can say that the work has not gone on all across the city."