Hundreds of Belizeans will soon register or transfer ahead of the March 2027 municipal elections. But while the election machinery moves forward, the boundaries remain stuck in the past. Social activist Jeremy Enriquez says Belize cannot continue holding elections on maps designed more than two decades ago, especially after his legal team secured a landmark victory at the Caribbean Court of Justice in the 2025 redistricting case. With the maps still unchanged, Enriquez is now pressing to stop another election from being held under boundaries many argue offend the Constitution. News Five’s Shane Williams reports.
Shane Williams, Reporting
Jeremy Enriquez and his attorney, Senior Counsel Anand Ramlogan, can breathe a little easier tonight. The Caribbean Court of Justice has ruled in their favor, dismissing a wasted costs order that Justice Tawanda Hondora had issued against them.
Jeremy Enriquez
Jeremy Enriquez, Social Activist
“That was the most ridiculous, shameful, and disgraceful, uh, kind of revenge that the judge was trying to make in order to try to have him not practice in Belize and to discredit him, so the, the court threw that out.”
Still, one legal win does not erase the imbalance. Some constituencies, including Stann Creek West, Belmopan, and Belize Rural South, now carry more than ten thousand registered voters, while others, such as Fort George, Mesopotamia, and Queen Square, have fewer than three thousand. The primary argument from government officials against Enriquez’s petition was its timing.
Prime Minister John Briceño
Prime Minister John Briceño (File: Feb. 17, 2025)
“If these people knew that that’s what they wanted to do, they could have done it a long time ago. I think they started to do this, I believe, just trying to get attention when they started to hear that we are going to call elections.”
The General Election proceeded with a commitment from the prime minister that government would proceed with redistricting by the end of 2025. At the end of 2025, that target changed.
Prime Minister John Briceño (File: Dec. 19th, 2025)
“It’s something that will be done next year and it’ll be finished by the end of 2026.”
Halfway through 2026, there has been no evidence that the redistricting process is underway, and another election is fast approaching.
Jeremy Enriquez
“The Prime Minister, we hope this time, after several repeated promises, we hope that this time his promise has some measure of integrity. He took responsibility for the past failures. He had promised that by the end of 2025 redistricting could be done, and if not, by the end of 2026. We are more than halfway of 2026, and we hope that his – that it will be completed as he said it will.”
And if the Briceño administration does not deliver the long-awaited and promised redistricting exercise before the municipal election in March, the cycle repeats itself.
Jeremy Enriquez
“We will pursue this matter in court to establish in the courts that this cannot be repeated, this, this, um, violation of the supreme law by political, rogue political parties cannot be repeated, and they must respect and abide by the constitution as they swore to uphold.”
Shane Williams for News Five.
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