By Dorian A. Barrow, Ph.D., Florida State University: The Ministry of Education spends over one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) per year on schools and schooling in Belize, most of it on paying the 6,000 or so teachers working in our school system.
Feb 19, 2021
Is Mayor Bernard Wagner to Be Disqualified from Running?
An online media outlet reported today that sitting Belize City Mayor, Bernard Wagner is to be disqualified from running in the March third municipal elections. The article claims focuses on the mayor’s nomination papers which indicate that he resides in the Los Lagos community, in the Belize District. According to the story the Belize City Council Act Chapter 85 revised Edition 2011 reads that “No person shall be eligible for election as a member of the Council, or having been elected, shall sit or vote on the Council, who: has not ordinarily resided in Belize City for at least one year immediately preceding the date of the election or is not domiciled in Belize.”