Since coming into opposition following the 2020 General Elections, the United Democratic Party Leader and current Leader of the Opposition Hon. Patrick Faber formed a slate to make up a Shadow Cabinet and Opposition spokespersons. They are now the persons responsible to hold the current administration to their word and to ensure that they are acting legally and within the best interest of the country. While they meet on a weekly basis, since the November election, the first public proclamation from members of the Shadow Cabinet and Opposition spokespersons was held on Thursday, January 21, 2021 when Hon. Patrick Faber expressed that it is his and the party’s opinion that the PUP is not acting in the country’s best interest in some areas. Some of their actions so far have not been productive to the country’s development.
The last three days in Belize were observed as days of mourning in honor of the passing of the country’s first and the Commonwealth’s first female Governor General, Doctor Dame Minita Gordon. She passed away on January 1, 2021 in Inglewood, California at the age of 90 to cancer. On Monday, January 18, 2021, her body was flown to Belize and arrived at the Phillip Goldson International Airport. A number of high ranking officials from Belize were there to meet her casket which was draped in the Belizean flag and received by the Government of Belize including the current Governor General of our country Sir Colville Young, the Prime Minister, and Leader of the Opposition Hon. Patrick Faber.