The mayor is hoping that those and all the works he and his council have put in will be enough to convince the Belize City resident to re-elect him. UDP insiders have told us that at the most- recent UDP council meeting, the Party leader, Prime Minister Dean Barrow, specifically asked Mayor Bradley if he is doing enough work in Caribbean Shores to bring out the vote for year's Municipal Elections.
He is up for re-election, but he's also the UDP standard bearer in that constituency, which is being represented by PUP's Kareem Musa. Here's how he answered that one:
Darrell Bradley, Mayor - Belize City
"In life you win and you lose. As mayor we've worked very hard, signaled this afternoon by the unveiling of this ribbon for the frame. It's a small thing, but it's another area of development in Belize City. The commercial center project, that took us 2 years. I mean you make the point in relation to the delay, but it doesn't change the fact that a substantial amount of work has gone on to getting us to this point."
"In terms of Belize you would have seen that there are 160 concrete streets in Belize City. A lot of those streets are in Caribbean Shores, so that you would see the redevelopment along Seashore Drive. You would have seen the various boulevards; Buttonwood Bay Boulevard and so forth. You would have seen the sidewalks that we install along Coney Drive. The cementing of the entire Princess Margaret Drive which is major accomplishment for Belize City. That entire street is in Caribbean Shores, half of it in Freetown. So there's been a lot of work. I mean as a politician I can only stand on my work. I can't really say what the people of Caribbean Shores will do for municipal election. But I am telling that as mayor I work and as an area representative I would have work. As a campaigner I will work. That's my nature and so we just went into an election. If it is the people's will that they return the United Democratic Party back to city hall, then that's the people's will. But that does not negate the fact that every single day leading up to an election we will continue to work for the betterment of residents and visitors to all of the city."
"In the municipal elections of last we won quite handsomely. We manage to win Caribbean Shores quiet handsomely. I suspect that that likewise will not be a change. We have been on the ground. We've been working, but then again, who is to predict what the public will say. If people want a city council headed by myself with the UDP in place, then you are going to vote for that. If you don't want that, then that's your wish and I have to live with that."
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