Omar Figueroa, you met him on this newscast back in April when he was trapping
and tracking jaguars and pumas in the Belize District. Well, he’s still
a field biologist but instead of being called the Jaguar Man, we’ll now
have to call him the Honorable Jaguar Man. That’s because Figueroa has
been named the UDP Senator-designate from the Cayo District
The vacancy comes up because Deborah Macmillan who has been the UDP Senator
from the west for the last three years is leaving take up a post at a U.S. university.
There were two possible names for the post, popular UDP friend Wilmot Simmons
and Fiegueroa who is less known nationally but well respected in Cayo.
The Prime Minister is expected to shortly advise the governor general to make
the appointment. Figueroa’s ascension to the senate is seen as a major
boost for the conservation movement.
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