George Cadle Price
He entered Belizean Politics in 1947 when Belize was still called British Honduras. He was elected as the Deputy Chairman of the then Independent Party the same year in 1947 before the 1947 British Honduras general election. He won the nominations as an Independent Representative for Belize City unopposed, 5 months before the 1947 British Honduras general election and stood as an Independent Candidate for Belize City Constituency In the 1947 British Honduras general election and won his seat of Belize City constituency. His then Party, the Independent Party which was then led by John Smith was the only Party that contested in the 1947 British Honduras general election and won all the then, nine seats British Honduras Legislative Assembly unopposed in the 1947 British Honduras general election. After the 1947 British Honduras general election, Price was appointed as Chairman of the Belize City Council by the then Leader of The Independent Party, John Smith. Price served faithfully as Chairman of the Belize City Council and as a Member of Parliament and the Legislative Assembly of Belize, he hired workers to build houses and roads in Belize City as the then, British Honduras was not developed yet and Price seemed that something was missing in Belize City. In 1949, Price was appointed as Attorney General and Minister of Economic Development by Leader, John Smith. In that same year of 1948, with the devaluation of the British Honduras dollar he, together with a group of citizens and nine of his political colleagues and friends such as then Leader of the Independence Party, John Smith, then Deputy First Minister Leigh Richardson, Herbert Fuller and Herman Jex, firmed the People’s Committee (PC) The People’s Committee (PC) marked and was the start of the “peaceful, constructive Belizean revolution. On 29 September 1950, he renamed and founded the People’s United Party from the Independent Party together with his political friends and colleagues John Smith and Leigh Richardson, which he led for four decades and 40 years and which he devoted to the political and economic independence of the British Colony, then known as the British Honduras.