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Mayor Darrell Bradley
"I love being mayor. I think that anyone would love a job that they see that they are making a difference and the significant benefit is that people now have a sense of hope and optimism and pride about living in Belize City and it would be my greatest joy to see that increase and grow to something that blossoms into a fire that ignites passions in individual people."

Jules Vasquez
"You are doing a job that has a redeeming personal value. Why don't you just recommit and say man I'll stick around as mayor?"

Mayor Darrell Bradley
"I have never.. You've asked me on numerous occasions in terms of what my intention is. It is my intention to see the city increase, continue to prosper, and continue to grow. I look at the job of being mayor and I think we've made an in-road, but there as a lot more things that we could have done in the 2 years and I am disappointed in the fact that some of those things we haven't been able to do. If we didn't have to deal with sanitation I would build all the streets in Belize City and I would be here forever because you can know that you have a city council that is properly finance, that is run in a certain way and that can deliver to members of the public."

"It's sad to say but I have been working since day one and its taking a toll out on me personally. I mean, it's not easy going to court and facing Waste Control in terms of contempt proceedings, we are performing and kinds causes me increase frustration that we are doing well and we have stress a lot on accountability and we've stress a lot on governance and inclusion and we still get lash for a significant amount of things that we haven't done and you are seeing a city moving forward and transforming. All of those things cause me headache and frustrates me."

"So now you come and ask me a question about what is the future of Darrell Bradley and I am telling you laughingly that I don't think about that I think about what is the future of Belize City. You think it makes me feel good driving around parts of our city when you look at the condition of the streets and the condition in relation to how our people live? We want to do and I am not being facetious when I tell you that we could have done twice as much work than what we did this 2 years. So now you are coming to me and you are saying well what about this election, you are saying well what about the divergence between the views of the Prime Minister and your views? What about you saying that you are clowning the media and I am telling you that we are about performance and we are about the lives of every single person in our city. We are about promoting healthy values and we are about transformation. Don't be fixated upon an election because in politics a day is an eternity and things could be one way today and tomorrow they could change."

And indeed, they could change. The Prime Minister has said that if the currents convention candidates for mayor were to step aside, the way would be re-opened for Bradley. We'll wait and see.