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Caribbean Life, N 14 ovember 13-19, 2020
By Bert Wilkinson
Unless Prime Minister
Gaston Brown of Antigua
calls a snap election
before year end, the last
of nine general elections
in the Caribbean Community
for a volatile 2020
was scheduled to be held
in Belize on Wednesday
of this week, six days after
voters in St. Vincent gave
the ruling party a record
fifth five-year term in
office.
Locals are going to the
polls amid massive job
losses from the Covid-
19 pandemic, a tanking
economy beset by low
tourism arrivals and significant
flooding triggered
by the outer bands
of Hurricane Eta now
sweeping through the
northern parts of Central
America.
Officials fear these
issues could lead to a low
voter turnout and would
most likely affect the governing
United Democratic
Party (UDP) seeking a
record fourth consecutive
term in office at the
expense of the People’s
United Party (PUP).
As Belizeans vote and as
the community was forced
to cobble together yet
another electoral observer
mission in the midst of
regional travel challenges
and restrictions, Prime
Minister Ralph Gonsalves
in St. Vincent defied all
predictions to win a fifth
consecutive term, beating
the New Democratic
Party (NDP) of Opposition
Leader Goodwin Friday
by nine parliamentary
seats to six, to improve on
its 8-7 configuration that
had been the case for the
past two elections.
As Gonsalves, 74, prepares
to name a new cabinet
this week, electors in
Jamaica also had their
say at the weekend with
the main opposition People’s
National Party (PNP)
electing a new leader following
its devastating
loss at the September 1,
general elections to the
governing Jamaica Labor
Party (JLP).
The JLP walked away
with 49 of the 63 seats and
in the process basically
retired the careers of several
PNP big wigs including
former leader and ex
security minister Peter
Phillips. Phillips, 70, had
promised to step down
if the party had failed to
form the government,
hinting that the party
needs to be governed by a
new generation of leaders.
Former justice minister
and investment banker
Mark Golding comfortably
defeated 1993 Miss
World winner and PNP
treasurer, Lisa Hanna for
the leadership position
in party elections held at
the weekend. The PNP
is struggling to reshape
its image following the
astounding defeat, the
second worst after the
51-9 shellacking in the
bloody 1980 elections.
Hanna was also a former
cabinet minister. At 45,
her supporters were hoping
she would usher in a
new generation of leaders
to match PM Andrew Holness
at 48. Golding is 55.
In what is perhaps a
record breaking year for
elections in the region,
polls have already been
held in Guyana, Suriname,
St. Kitts, Trinidad, Jamaica,
Dutch St. Maarten,
Anguilla and The Dominican
Republic and now St.
Vincent and Belize as the
year ends.
In Belize meanwhile,
Prime three-term Prime
Minister Dean Barrow is
retiring from active politics
and has handed the
mantle to Minister of
Education, Patrick Faber.
Faber would be trying to
stave off the challenge
from former PUP deputy
prime minister John
Brecino. Brecino replaces
former PUP leader Francis
Fonseca who had led the
party in the 2015 elections
which the UDP had picked
up 17 of the 31 seats. The
two main parties are fielding
a full slate of candidates.
Tugging at their
heels for votes are Belize
People’s Front (PPF) fielding
17 candidates and the
Belize Progressive Party
(BPP) competing with
eight.
The electoral commission
has said that normal
campaigning activities
had been restricted
by Covid-19 protocols and
recent flooding from Hurricane
Eta but in person
voting would be the main
source of electing leaders
despite these challenges.
Meanwhile, CARICOM
has sent yet another
monitoring mission to
a regional election this
year. Six members have
been on the ground in
Belize since last week officials
said.
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston
Browne. Gov’t of Antigua and Barbuda
Elections activities in Belize,
St. Vincent and Jamaica
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