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The press was invited for the event at City Hall, and Mayor Bradley addressed the gathering:

Darrell Bradley, Mayor - Belize City
"It has been 3 years and I look at the councilors, I look at myself and one thing I could say with certainty, that the head is greyer and the waist is tighter. But that represents years' experience coming together as a council team, as a council family and it has really been an honor for me to be mayor of Belize City over the last 3 years and it would be an even greater honor for me to go into another 3 years. At the helm of what I believe is really an amazing cadre of outstanding people. The 10 councilors who you see here before you, who just took the oath of office, are distinguished individuals themselves - 8 of them has served our city before and they are going into another term, joined by 2 new councilors and that energy, that passion, that family orientation will continue. I was very pleased with the election. Most of all, I was pleased with the civility of it. You go out during the election season and you will look at every lamp post and there is a PUP banner, there is a UDP banner. That symbolizes a mature society. It symbolizes a respect for differences, but that we can all come together at the end of the day for the betterment of our community. It would be remised of me to say that the City Council over the last 3 years, has done this by themselves. I have been very, in some cases, embarrassed, because people have said Mayor, you are doing a good job and that good work that we have done over the last 3 years is not my work. It is our work. It is the work of 10 men and women. It is the work of a mayor, it is the work our some now 400 staff. It is the work of all the 67,000 people who lives in our city. It is the work of people in our religious community, people in our business community, people in our NGO community and an average citizens, who make our city work."

This is the beginning of Mayor Bradley's second term in office.