Belize Rural Central Eagerly Awaits Remaining Village Council Elections  

With just over two weeks left in the 2025 Village Council elections, the People’s United Party is keeping a close eye on the results. While some villages saw uncontested races, a surprising number of independent candidates emerged victorious, shaking up expectations. Today, we caught up with Belize Rural Central Area Representative Dolores Balderamos-García to get her take on how things are shaping up in her constituency. Here’s what she had to say about the performance of local candidates and what it could mean for the final stretch of the elections.

 

Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, Area Representative, Belize Rural Central

“I’m happy to say that our slates were successful in those two areas, but it was contested. So we, because we had independent slates in those areas, but those elections have been held, Gracie Rock and La Democracia for Freetown Sibun, which is a very tiny community, only about twenty-eight voters. They did not have any contest. Mr. Roberto Tun and his team went to get nominated. Nobody else went. So they are the council and he’s, he repeats now as chairperson, and he’s a very good one. Coming now to Gales Point, Manatee, the six counselor candidates were not contested, so they became the council, but there was a contest for chair, and that was held on Sunday, and there were two candidates. None of them were PUP, but one, they were independent. But I think Miss Nadine Moore, she won for chairperson. I’m happy that the chairperson of Gales Point is a woman now and a good one too. She’s a good person, a good leader. So where does that leave us? That leaves us with, Mahogany Heights for Sunday. This coming Sunday, there’s a PUP slate and an independent slate. And then after that you would have the big ones. The bigger ones, Western Paradise and Hattieville go on the twenty-second of June. And Ladyville and Lord’s Bank go on the twenty-ninth of June. I do know that it’s we have an independent slate for Mahogany Heights this coming Sunday. And then after that it will be Hattieville and Western Paradise on the twenty-second, and Ladyville and Lord’s Bank on the twenty-ninth. So let’s see what happens. I know there’s gonna be definitely a contest in Hattieville because I think we have three slates going up. We have three slates going up, so it’ll be an interesting one to watch.”