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.

On September 16th 2004, the Belize Senate introduced a resolution that triggered the first Senate investigation in Belize’s history.

The furor over the sale of 46% of the shares of the Citrus Products of Belize Limited (CPBL) has been simmering and raging, raging and simmering, for many months.

From August 1st 2006 to March 13th 2007 the Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation (DFC) was broadcast live on radio and television featuring extremely high profile political figures and members of the business community.

Should the death penalty be abolished in Belize or should we seek to lift the moratorium and reintroduce it?

Recent skirmishes between the Government of Belize and the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIIM) over licenses granted for oil exploration in the Toledo District are manifestations of a more fundamental socio-cultural issue facing Belize.

One of Belize’s most revered and successful political figures of all time, once famously remarked, “Tourism is whore-ism.” The statement was not intended to be taken literally of course...