The Authorities of Belize and the Belize Tourism Board has formally unveiled a brand new statue honoring Rt. Hon. George Cadle Worth, the nation’s first Premier and Prime Minister.
The revealing coincides with the thirteenth anniversary of Worth’s passing.
The statue, now standing prominently within the Battlefield Park in downtown Belize Metropolis, serves as a long-lasting tribute to Worth’s pivotal position in Belize’s journey to independence.
Often called the “Father of the Nation” of Belize, Worth led the nation to independence on September twenty first, 1981, after years of devoted wrestle and negotiation.
His management throughout the essential years main as much as and following independence formed the nation’s path and id.
– Commercial –
Worth is remembered as a visionary political chief and a tireless advocate for Belizean sovereignty.
Worth successfully dominated Belizean politics from the early Nineteen Sixties till his 1996 retirement from social gathering management, having been the nation’s head of presidency underneath varied titles for many of that interval.
He entered politics in 1947 together with his election to the Belize Metropolis Council. In 1949, with the devaluation of the British Honduran greenback he, along with a bunch of residents, shaped the Folks’s Committee. It was the beginning of the “peaceable, constructive Belizean revolution”. On 29 September 1950, he co-founded the Folks’s United Celebration, which he led for 4 a long time and which was dedicated to the political and financial independence of the British colony, then often called British Honduras.
In September 2000, Worth grew to become the primary particular person to obtain Belize’s highest honor, the Order of Nationwide Hero, for the distinguished position he performed in main his nation to independence. He has received similar honors in other Caribbean and Central American international locations. In 1982, he was made a member of the Privy Council of the UK
The Authorities of Belize hopes that this statue will function greater than only a memorial. It’s meant to “encourage Belizeans to serve their nation with satisfaction and patriotism.”
