Said Musa
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The Right Honourable Said Wilbert Musa |
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Musa in Belmopan, 2006
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| 5th Prime Minister of Belize | |
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In office 28 August 1998 – 8 February 2008 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | Colville Young |
| Deputy |
Johnny Briceño Juan Vildo Marin |
| Preceded by | Manuel Esquivel |
| Succeeded by | Dean Barrow |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 8 February 2008 – 30 March 2008 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | Colville Young |
| Prime Minister | Dean Barrow |
| Preceded by | Dean Barrow |
| Succeeded by | Johnny Briceño |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 10 November 1996 – 30 August 1998 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | Colville Young |
| Prime Minister | Manuel Esquivel |
| Preceded by | George Cadle Price |
| Succeeded by | Dean Barrow |
| Member of the Belize House of Representatives for Fort George | |
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Assumed office 4 September 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Dean Lindo |
| Member of the Belize House of Representatives for Fort George | |
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In office 21 November 1979 – 14 December 1984 |
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| Preceded by | Dean Lindo |
| Succeeded by | Dean Lindo |
| Personal details | |
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19 March 1944 San Ignacio, British Honduras (now Belize) |
| Political party | People's United Party |
| Spouse(s) | Joan Musa |
| Residence | Belize City, Belize |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Said Wilbert Musa (born 19 March 1944) is a Belizean lawyer and politician. He was the Prime Minister of Belize from 28 August 1998 to 8 February 2008.
Said Wilbert Musa was born in 1944 in San Ignacio in the Cayo District of what was then British Honduras. He was the fourth of eight children by Aurora Musa, née Gibbs, and Hamid Musa of Palestinian descent. Hamid Musa was also involved in politics, running for the British Honduras Legislative Assembly as a National Party candidate in the 1957 general elections.
As a boy, Musa attended Saint Andrew's Primary School in San Ignacio. He then attended high school at St. Michael's College in Belize City and later St. John's College Sixth Form. While living in Belize City, Said Musa aided his parents by selling tamales and other Belizean delicacies. After completing secondary school he then studied law at the University of Manchester in England, receiving an Honours Degree in Law in 1966, and then qualified as a barrister at Gray's Inn. He returned to Belize the following year, serving as crown counsel and then going into private practice. Said Musa has significantly contributed to law in Belize by representing thousands of underprivileged and poor individuals who come into contact with the law.
Musa first came to notoriety in the late 1960s when he co-founded the Ad Hoc Committee for the Truth About Vietnam with Assad Shoman to protest the Vietnam War in British Honduras. On 1 January 1969 the group protested a showing of the American film The Green Berets in Belize City, which it characterized as pro-war propaganda.
Musa joined the People's United Party (PUP) under George Cadle Price in the early 1970s. He soon became a leader of the party's socialist wing. He ran for the Belize House of Representatives for the first time in 1974 in the eastern Belize City-based Fort George constituency, but was narrowly defeated by then-United Democratic Party leader Dean Lindo by 46 votes. Musa was appointed to the Belize Senate for the ensuing term.
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