In a series of questions, I have tried to expose the craft of a man who will remain a large and controversial figure on the Belizean landscape.

So, should Ralph run in 2008? The unbiased, unemotional answer lies in answering, first, another more fundamental question: is it in the Party’s best interest? The Party’s best interest is supreme and therefore trumps all other individual or factional interests. The answer to the second question is admittedly tricky, but once answered it becomes the definitive answer to the first question.

The Fort Street Tourism Village’s (FSTV) wall might well have encased the village in a duty free world but it has brought a ton load of controversy, hardly a world of alienated equilibrium.