What type of government does Belize have, and is the government in Belize stable?
Boris Mannsfeld - Boris Mannsfeld & Associates
Belize is a parliamentary monarchy where the Queen still “owns” the country, but they have their own independence, which is really weird. Belize has two principal parties. If another country were to invade Belize, England is bound by treaty to come to the defense of Belize, so nobody is going to take up arms against Belize; it is not like somebody is looking to attack or to invade the country. Belize is very safe in that regard. It is not like Guatemala or Mexico is going...
Belize is a parliamentary monarchy where the Queen still “owns” the country, but they have their own independence, which is really weird. Belize has two principal parties. If another country were to invade Belize, England is bound by treaty to come to the defense of Belize, so nobody is going to take up arms against Belize; it is not like somebody is looking to attack or to invade the country. Belize is very safe in that regard. It is not like Guatemala or Mexico is going to come crashing across the boarders.
Belize is politically and otherwise reasonably stable. I don’t see any crises in the horizon. Belize has stable regulations and rules. There’s some self-regulation, but unfortunately, there is still an amount of crime, more so in Belize City and in Corozal, but that’s due, more than anything else, to the lack of opportunity for the poorer class to grow into the middle class. They just don’t have the jobs and the infrastructure and the opportunity to get employed, so what they do is to get into trouble.
Posted December 1, 2014
Rachel Jensen - Grand Baymen
Belize, formally known as British Honduras, gained its independence in 1981 from England. Their current government is based on the British Parliamentary, and has a democratically elected Prime Minister and cabinet. They follow British Common Law. There are two primary parties in Belize, the Red and the Blue party. The government was strategically structured based on the understanding of the country’s history and goals. It is stable in the sense that the...
Belize, formally known as British Honduras, gained its independence in 1981 from England. Their current government is based on the British Parliamentary, and has a democratically elected Prime Minister and cabinet. They follow British Common Law. There are two primary parties in Belize, the Red and the Blue party. The government was strategically structured based on the understanding of the country’s history and goals. It is stable in the sense that the people are favored and are given equal rights.
Posted December 1, 2014
Christian Burn
Belize has a stable parliamentary democracy where there are two parties: the United Democratic Party and People's United Party - the UDP and the PUP. I would probably equate the PUP with more of the liberal philosophy and the UDP more of the conservative philosophy. The conservative UDP Party has been in government now for the last two terms under Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Like any two party system, you are basically not voting “for” but rather, you are voting...
Belize has a stable parliamentary democracy where there are two parties: the United Democratic Party and People's United Party - the UDP and the PUP. I would probably equate the PUP with more of the liberal philosophy and the UDP more of the conservative philosophy. The conservative UDP Party has been in government now for the last two terms under Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Like any two party system, you are basically not voting “for” but rather, you are voting “against” one party.
Posted December 2, 2014
Virginia Krohn - Villa Cayo Belize
The government of Belize is a democracy and has a two-party system, the PUP (blue) and UDP (red), and they both work similar to the Democrats and the Republicans in the States. There are the ones that are for the people and there are the ones that are for business and improvements. I don’t like a particular aspect of voting here because when you go and vote, you have to stick your finger in ink all the way up to the top of your fingernail and it...
The government of Belize is a democracy and has a two-party system, the PUP (blue) and UDP (red), and they both work similar to the Democrats and the Republicans in the States. There are the ones that are for the people and there are the ones that are for business and improvements. I don’t like a particular aspect of voting here because when you go and vote, you have to stick your finger in ink all the way up to the top of your fingernail and it stains for days and even sometimes weeks. They do this in order to prevent voting more than once.
When they first started doing this years ago that ink would be red or blue, which are the two colors of the respective political parties, and then you could be harassed! So they had to change it to purple, which is the blending of the blue and the red so that no one knows who you voted for.
(Distribution of senate seats by political party, Belize., pictured.)
Posted August 12, 2016