Background
He was born in 1924 in Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico to Belizean parents, Stella Alberta Gill and Juan Castro Pollard.
He was born in 1924 in Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico to Belizean parents, Stella Alberta Gill and Juan Castro Pollard.
The same year, he was elected president of the General Workers Union. He made major contributions to the development of the trade union movement in Belize. On September 29, 1956, Pollard and nationalist leader George Cadle Price co-founded the Belize Times, now one of the largest newspapers in Belize.
In 1958, Pollard broke away from the PUP and formed the Christian Democratic Party of Belize (Career Development Pathway).
He served as Executive Secretary of the English-speaking Caribbean region of the Confederación Latino Americana de Sindicatos Cristianos (CLASC. Also known in English as the Latin American Confederation of Christian Unionists) from 1961 to 1969.
With the support of CLASC he founded the National Federation of Christian Trade Unions in Belize in 1962. In the 1970s, Pollard left public life and worked in the private sector. He became an educator in the 1980s and 1990s.
He died in January 2003.
The first child was Nicholas Pollard, Junior. who became heavily involved in several national sports organizations.
He was a founding member of the People"s United Party (PUP) in 1950.