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The purpose of the rally was to kick-start the events leading up to the election of the National Youth Council. District Elections will be held in all 6 districts on February 29 to elect their respective District committee members. Today we caught up with the Belize District Delegation as they got their pep on.

Shawn Saldano, PR Officer - Dept. of Youth
"Today is the rally for the endorsement of the national youth council that is a long overdue process that the government of Belize has been trying to push off a long time ago. It is finally here. The election is on February 29th where the youth representative who have been nominated will be elected into office for the varied different positions of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and public relations officer. Today the rally is important because it is the hype, it is the highlight of gathering youth leaders to finally be involved in decision making, to finally be involved in the process of making whatever differences it means to ensure that our youth population is well represented and well impacted."

Emanuel Pech
"Why do you want to be involved in the creation of the national youth council?"

Tyesha Estrada, Running for President
"First thing, youths are not the future, we are the now. People see us as we will work in the future, but I don't believe that is what we will do. We need to create a Belize that put youths as the forefront of most of our things. So being nominated as president, that is what I want to do; work for my youth. Because I am a youth myself, so if I get to be president there are a lot of things that I can do with putting youths out there being the most important role for me or my main objective."

Shawn Saldano, PR Officer - Dept. of Youth
"Young people often mandate or ask to be a part of the decision making process. Well this is their opportunity. This is no easy responsibility. It is no easy burden, because they are now held responsible - they are now held with the huge responsibility to ensure that all that they do strategically focus on capacity building, strength of the youth population."

After the district elections each elected president automatically becomes a member of the National executive. From there another voting process will take place to determine the National President, and Vice Presidents. And after all posts are filled, the National Youth Council of Belize will be charged with implementing, formulating and evaluating government policies. In theory, their input will go to all levels of government including cabinet.