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The Dictatorship of the Reformists |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Thursday, April 10, 2008
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The decision by the new leadership of the People’s United Party to proceed with a National Convention in an “ostentatiously unconstitutional” manner, as it has been elsewhere characterized, should hardly be perceived as an act of innocent incompetence or political naïveté.
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The Aftermath |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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The only thing that stands between Francis Fonseca and crown he is prepared to take up is his name. Mr. Briceño is indeed working hard but if he is to have any chance at the crown, his on-again, off-again ally, Mark Espat, will have to fall in behind his campaign.
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The Tao of Politics: Manifestos |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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Belizean politicians know that party manifestos at present do not play any significant role in influencing the electorate one way or the other. The traditional thinking has been to not give the opponent too much time to one-up each other’s manifesto ideas or too much time to punch holes into it.
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An Undying Colonialism |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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People from the developed world continue to be fascinated by Africa, especially Europeans. It is a continent of stark and intense contradictions: immense mineral riches yet widespread, staggering poverty; the cradle of civilization and a hell of unending civil wars;.... Glimpses of the kind of poverty and squalor that is found in Africa can be found in Belize and the Caribbean too.
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Rethinking Belize’s Foreign Policy |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Thursday, November 15, 2007
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t is expected that the Secretary General of the Organization of American States will shortly be making his recommendations in this latest round of Belize-Guatemala negotiations. After seven or eight years of protracted and intense negotiations, both countries realized the futility of negotiations and started leaning toward a juridical solution.
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Andy, Ivan & the Culture of Mediocrity |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
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Is Belize “a retarded place”? ... it neither fully shares the Caribbean ethos nor that of the neighboring republics, and, in this sense, is on its own. This fosters an insidious insularity, intellectual in-breeding and an outlook not measured or tested against regional or global realities.
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The Fate of Black Belize |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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The most recent spate of violence that left a number of Black youth dead at the hands of other Black youth in Belize City has given rise to public discourse on strategies for reducing crime and violence. Is it true that poverty and lack of opportunity is not the exclusive domain of Black Belizeans?
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