George Cadle Price

Who was George Cadle Price?

The Right Honourable George Cadle Price, P.C., was the first Prime Minister of Belize and is considered to have been one of the principal architects of the country's independence. Today he is referred to by many as "the Father of the Nation".

Born in Belize City, in what was then British Honduras, to William and Irene Price, he entered politics in 1947 with his election to the Belize City Council. In 1949, with the devaluation of the British Honduran Dollar he, together with a group of citizens formed the People's Committee. It was the start of the "Peaceful, constructive Belizean revolution". On September 29, 1950, he co-founded the People's United Party, which he led for four decades and which was devoted to the political and economic independence of the British colony, then known as British Honduras.