They call him "Star" and Cordel Hyde - asz the most senior PUP politician in Belize City - was surely the star of Sunday's convention - which was adjacent to his home turf of Lake I.
The crowd favorite especially gave a short yet powerful dress but his super energised supporters didn't need much:
Cordel Hyde, Minister of Natural Resources "Well it was a very impressive crowd, very boisterous and happy crowd and I think that was the intention for us to energise our base and for us for us to get our people excited about the elections and leave from this place energised and motivated and but work as hard as they possibly can to ensure that we win the next elections you know elections are not a given we can't take it for granted you can't take the people for granted you don't win before the last vote is counted. And so today was a rather useful exercise outside of the fact that we endorsed our new executive and returned the prime minister as our party leader to take us into the next elections with his executive intact. But really it was about the people and about energising our folks and I think they left here pretty energised."
"We the go correct we aren't there yet, but we are going correct we have done a lot of good things there are more people getting cement houses than ever before, more people getting land than ever before, more kids in school than ever before, and more people working than ever before but we still have a lot of work to do we are going correct but we are not there yet. And ultimately it's about a journey. Elections are about a direction, a trajectory, about a future and about where you are going and whether what you want for your children and what you want for your families and communities and ultimately that's the argument we want to take to our people. I keep telling my guys to ignore and don't be distracted by the UDP soap opera. Stay focused on what we are about because we are not going to win the elections before the elections. So you have to campaign everyday as hard as you can as if there is no tomorrow as if though you are behind as if though your life depends on it and ultimately it's about we and the voters, about having a conversation with the Belizean people about what's best and how we see the country going and where we want to take the country that's what its about."
"Well it was a very impressive crowd, very boisterous and happy crowd and I think that was the intention for us to energise our base and for us for us to get our people excited about the elections and leave from this place energised and motivated and but work as hard as they possibly can to ensure that we win the next elections you know elections are not a given we can't take it for granted you can't take the people for granted you don't win before the last vote is counted. And so today was a rather useful exercise outside of the fact that we endorsed our new executive and returned the prime minister as our party leader to take us into the next elections with his executive intact. But really it was about the people and about energising our folks and I think they left here pretty energised."