Today we asked the Mayor Darrell Bradley about reports we've picked up that he has submitted his name as a candidate for the UDP Standard Bearer in Caribbean Shores. We know he's been campaigning in the Shores, so it didn't seem far-fetched.
Now, as recent history has shown, trying to get a straight answer from the mayor on matters such as candidacy can be difficult. But when we asked him about the Caribbean Shores candidacy, he gave us as direct a response has he's ever given about his political future. Here's what he had to say:
Darrell Bradley, Belize City Mayor
"This election right here I am running for Mayor - that's what I am doing and everything that obtains in terms of my priorities is to be an effective mayor. I think from day one I have said and this has been something that I have meant that I want to leave this city better than I found it. We found a city rot with debt, we found significant challenges and I felt as a resident of Belize City that the council could do more and we have done more and so going forward into this next municipal election which will be in March of 2015, my commitment is to residents of the entire city as their mayor and I am asking people to vote for us not because of anything else but our record of proven success. Everything that we said we would have done we are doing. It's not perfect, we have substantial challenges but I think that very few people could dispute the fact that our city is moving forward even incrementally. Notwithstanding all of that, I have never been evasive in relation to the view that I intend to aspire for higher office. I have never said no and I am telling you that yes I am not a candidate for Caribbean Shores, I don't think that I will be a candidate for that area anytime soon but I tell you, either that area or other areas that is where I am heading in the future."
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