After a long history of failed negotiations, it is generally agreed that it is unlikely that the Belize-Guatemala differendum will be resolved any time soon through further negotiations. So what should we do next?

The Congo, formerly Zaire, is a gigantic country, the size of Western Europe. It is a country rich in minerals, gold, diamonds, cobalt, timber, copper, palm oil. But it is a shattered and impoverished land.

Since about the 1920s the British Conservative and Labour Parties have dominated politics in Britain, alternating in government ever since. The third parties in Belize, like meteors, have flashed across the political skyline sudden, fast and bright.

In an interview in May 1999 Lord Browne-Wilkinson, the then President of the Privy Council, intimated that appeals to that Court from the Caribbean should end. He urged the Caribbean to establish its own final court on the ground that the ultimate court of appellate jurisdiction of a state, should be in the state, staffed by citizens of that state and not by outsiders.