As we mentioned earlier, Mayor Darrell Bradley has begun his second consecutive term in office at City Hall. His first and recent term saw an abundance of infrastructural works being done across the city. Today we asked Bradley if he had managed to live up to the commitments in the last manifesto and what his priorities for this new term will be.
MAYOR DARRELL BRADLEY
“Well the manifesto for the last cycle, this would have been from 2012 to 2015 focused a lot on the interest of infrastructure and governance. Those are two of the key areas where there is a lot of specific tangible deliverable that are mentioned in the manifesto and many of those things were accomplished. I would say that we’ve accomplished about ninety percent of what’s contained in that manifesto. The manifesto in terms of areas of the major areas that they talked about are things that we have kept true to. We talk a lot also about e-governance, we did the driver’s license online. We’re going to launch very shortly in the next couple of weeks that you can pay property taxes online, that will be a huge benefit for people who live abroad so that you don’t have to send your money to Belize or you don’t have to come in to Belize to make any kinds of payments so that we’re doing a lot more things with e-governance. We’re ensuring that our website is updated, our Facebook page so that we can communicate with people in ways where we can reach them. If you are online, and we can make government more accessible. All in all we have accomplished., about ninety five percent whats contained in the manifesto and many of the things in there will be carried over. For example we mentioned the bus stop through Chetumal Street and the Lake Independence Boulevard, that’s not been built yet. That’s in the new manifesto so that there will be major projects that we are focusing on. We refer to the waterfront.”
Bradley’s term as Mayor ends in 2018.
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