Of course, Bradley and those councilors who want to be on the slate will have to go through a convention first. And, from what we've been hearing, the Mayor might not be opposed to a few new faces. When we were at the council office two weeks ago, we got the tail end of a contentious caucus meeting that we are told the Mayor basically stormed out of - after a disagreement with his councillors. When we asked the mayor about it today, he didn't deny, and would only say that his relationship with the councilors is like a bad marriage:...
Jules Vasquez, 7News
"Overtime any group of people, particularly in a power situation, you get tired of each other as you did get exasperated and break up the meeting."
Darrell Bradley - Mayor, Belize City
"I did what?"
Jules Vasquez, 7News
"You got exasperated and broke up the meeting. That's what I am reliably informed after the fact."
Darrell Bradley - Mayor, Belize City
"I will say though, that I think from a certain standpoint its challenging to be in municipal government because you do get frustrated because of the lack of resources, you get frustrated because of personalities that you have to deal with on a daily basis and within all the challenges, I do believe that the municipality has worked well, notwithstanding our personality differences, notwithstanding that we clash, we are humans beings, we fight regularly and I think in terms of city hall, I would say it's like a bad marriage in relation to people with different motivations, people with different levels of vision, people with different backgrounds and so forth, but you agree to say, because of the children, because of the community and so forth we will make this thing work and that's what I would like in it too. You take the good with the bad."
Jules Vasquez, 7News
"So then you would like an infusion of new councilors."
Darrell Bradley - Mayor, Belize City
"I wouldn't say that, notwithstanding the problems, notwithstanding the arguments, because that's what's strong personalities do, they argue but at the end of the day, if you were able to say that you are minimizing to a great extent, bad practices and corruption. You are able to maximize to a great extent, positive output so that we can visibly demonstrate improvements and that comes as a result of notwithstanding all the arguments and so forth as a result of determined leadership that you have leadership who wants to get things done and we have been able to do that so notwithstanding all problems, all the confusion and so forth. The city council, I believe is moving in the correct direction."
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