Carl Lindbergh Bernard Rogers
Wednesday, 25 January 1928
Thursday, 25 July 1996
At the time of his passing, CLB Rogers was predeceased by his:
Mother: Jane Messam
At the time of his passing, he was survived by his:
Daughter: Raquel Rogers
Son: Lee Rogers
He was laid to rest at the Lord Ridge Cemetery
1958 - He co-founded the National Independence Party (NIP)
1958 - He won a Belize City Council seat under the NIP banner
1961 - Rogers joined the PUP
1961 - He was elected as Area Representative for Mesopotamia in the Legislative Assembly (British Honduras)
He served as Minister of Home Affairs under Premier George Cadle Price
He also served as Deputy Premier (often described in modern terms as Deputy Prime Minister). That made him effectively the #2 in the PUP government.
1979 - He narrowly lost Mesopotamia to Curl Thompson of the newly consolidated UDP. That defeat ended his run in the House.
He served as Belize’s Ambassador / Permanent Representative to the United Nations
He held Mesopotamia from 1961 to 1979 — almost two decades — which in Belize City politics is an extraordinary run.
Older Belizean political commentary sometimes referred to him as “the Godfather,” meaning he handled the tough, behind-the-scenes negotiations and discipline that held the PUP machine together in Belize City through the 1960s and 1970s.