...against the backdrop of a deeply cynical electorate, I sensed that people wanted to hear the views and opinions of their
leaders, not just giving an interview during a scandal or a crisis, but arguing, reasoning, debating for the benefit of the public...

Open Letter to the Prime Minister: Feb 7th 2010
Articles By Godfrey Smith on Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Avert your gaze from the cursed pool of Narcissus glittering with the reflection of your own righteousness and superiority; it is transfixing but insubstantial.
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Crooks, Crime & Cussedness
Articles By Godfrey Smith on Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Opposition’s response to the crime situation has been the boilerplate, politics-as-usual approach to call for the resignation of the Minister of National Security as if someone from the government or opposition benches could do a better job.
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British Negligence unleashes Urban Terror
Articles By Godfrey Smith on Wednesday, January 06, 2010
The British have a moral obligation to offer reasonable compensation to the families who have been traumatized or had members killed by the grenade attacks; to do their best effort to find those grenades. It is a small price to pay for the death and terror that their negligence has unleashed in a city given over to criminality and chaos.
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Sedi’s Foot in Mouth Disease
Articles By Godfrey Smith on Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The two-day verbal flogging administered by Hyde, whose media organization enjoys a monthly payment of $3,000 from the minister’s personal funds for hosting his television show “Belizean Exposure”, bordered on cruel and inhuman punishment. It was a crucifixion of the pious Methodist minister.
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Said's Comeback Experiment: A Reply to Evan X Hyde
Articles By Godfrey Smith on Friday, December 18, 2009
Dean Barrow might have indeed tongue-flogged Said Musa to the tune of “Here we go ‘round the mulberry bush” last Friday. But in a game of musical chairs – which is what politics in Belize is – when the music stops, Said could very well end up in his seat.
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Defeating Michael Ashcroft
Articles By Godfrey Smith on Monday, December 07, 2009
To defeat Ashcroft, you have to take him out completely. Otherwise, he will just keep coming back. Anything else is just an expensive game of charades.
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Moses in the Land of Melchisedek
Articles By Godfrey Smith on Friday, November 06, 2009
He acculturated quickly and with a mixture of talent and smarts bootstrapped himself into the dizzying stratosphere of the rap world and into the company of megastars like Jay Z, P Diddy and Jennifer Lopez.
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From Musa with...Malice?
Articles By Godfrey Smith on Friday, October 23, 2009
The party leader is caught between the visceral, untamed ambition of his deputy and the resurrected ghost of the party leader past. But he should not be spooked.
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The Attorney General's Fight with the Judiciary
Articles By Godfrey Smith on Friday, October 16, 2009
Mr. Elrington’s remark that there is no money for judicial travel is hypocritical. Ministers as well as bureaucrats travel a great deal more than judges do. The travel expense of a single government department is greater than that of the judiciary as the third branch of the state.
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Abolish the Belize City Council
Articles By Godfrey Smith on Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Taxpayers money used to maintain non-functioning municipal bureaucracies could be directly applied to the upkeep of infrastructure if city councils and town councils were abolished and replaced with a handful of appointed, skilled city and town administrators.
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