National
Speaker of the House of Representatives
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Chosen by the House from among its members
- Exact method
- Elected by the House when it first meets after a general election, from its non-Minister members or from outside the Assembly (Constitution, s 60).
- Chosen by
- House of Representatives
- Seats
- 1
Who holds it now
- Valerie Woods PUP since May 2025 Report Source: api.data.ipu.org, checked (+1 more)
Sources
- pdba.georgetown.edu · checked Constitution of Belize (1981 text, Political Database of the Americas; later amendments not applied), read 2026-10-12: ss 30, 36-38, 40, 44, 55, 56, 60, 61, 68, 84. Fallback: Belize Laws online not fetched; sizes of the two Houses (31 and 13) are from the amended law as reported by Wikipedia For: Speaker of the House of Representatives
- api.data.ipu.org · checked IPU Parline, Belize House of Representatives (BZ-LC01), API record, read 2026-10-12: Speaker Valerie Woods "Elected on 11 Dec. 2020, re-elected on 9 May 2025"; current membership dated from 9 May 2025 (first sitting of the House elected 12 March 2025). Fallback: IPU Parline, because nationalassembly.gov.bz is suspended (hosting account) and pressoffice.gov.bz has no release on the first sitting. For: Valerie Woods, current term
- en.wikipedia.org · checked Wikipedia, House of Representatives (Belize) and National Assembly (Belize), read 2026-10-12: Speaker Valerie Woods; Senate has 13 members; President of the Senate Carolyn Trench-Sandiford (re-elected April 2025 per her Wikipedia article). Fallback: Wikipedia, because nationalassembly.gov.bz is suspended (hosting account) and no official cabinet list was reachable For: Valerie Woods, current term
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