From The Publisher Posted: 02/09/2010 - 10:52 PM As a young man, I made one big miscalculation. I thought that when brown people in Belize found out the truth about Mama Africa, its glorious history and awe-inspiring civilizations, they would begin to move towards an embrace of their African heritage. It really didn’t work out that way. I suppose it was presumptuous of me to believe that a few years of the truth could wipe out centuries of white supremacist propaganda. From The Publisher Posted: 30/08/2010 - 10:36 PM It is unreasonable to expect or demand certain things of a people when they are under various kinds of pressure. I feel that the Belizean people have shown determination, resilience, and even heroism during the course of my life, but I also see that the forces which are aligned against us are very, very wealthy and very, very powerful indeed. From The Publisher Posted: 26/08/2010 - 09:26 PM After Sir Andie’s Happy Homebuilders defeated Barry Bowen’s Belikin Wheels to win the basketball championship of Belize in 1979, bad things began to happen to Sir. The Homebuilders were revolutionary in more than basketball terms: they were revolutionary in a sociological sense, and this was because of Pulu Lightburn. From The Publisher Posted: 24/08/2010 - 10:39 AM When my generation was growing up in the colony of British Honduras a half a century ago, our elders ran a culture which did not emphasize the personal acquisition of money: in fact, that culture condemned the “love of money.” From The Publisher Posted: 20/08/2010 - 10:41 AM Last Friday morning I was watching Plus TV, which is a heavily financed religious station which comes out of Belmopan, and I saw the Mennonite who led the Belize Reform Party during the run-up to the general elections of February 2008. I couldn’t believe my eyes. This guy had completely disappeared from the scene as soon as those elections were concluded. So, on Friday morning I immediately called a couple of people to have them turn on Plus. They agreed: it surely looked like him. From The Publisher Posted: 17/08/2010 - 10:28 AM I know it was coming on to Christmas, but I can’t say if it was 1981 or 1982 when Charlie Good came to my house on First Street in King’s Park to discuss his career situation. Charlie was the most high profile Belize Defence Force (BDF) officer that I knew, and he lived on Sixth Street, three blocks away from me, near the “Calico” Perdomo home. From The Publisher Posted: 10/08/2010 - 11:05 AM I have written before that the politics of Belize had a kind of ethnic duality for much of the last half of the twentieth century. By that I mean that if you had a Latin leader, like Mr. Price or Mr. Esquivel, then it always followed that he had a black deputy leader. Mr. Price had Albert Cattouse and Lindy Rogers. Mr. Esquivel had Curl Thompson and Dean Barrow. Today’s black leader, Mr. Barrow, has a Latin deputy leader, Gapi Vega. From The Publisher Posted: 06/08/2010 - 11:10 AM Ismail Shabazz, who would have been the UBAD treasurer in 1971, over a period of time had been calling for us to get “military” training from Kimani Kenyatta. Such was the status of Ismail, who had been one of the UBAD founders in February of 1969 and a Supreme Court co-defendant with myself in July of 1970, that eventually he got his way. From The Publisher Posted: 03/08/2010 - 03:27 PM In 1984, a man called Kimani Kenyatta was reported as having been found dead by gunshot in Miami, Florida. There had always been mystery and hype surrounding Kimani, who had been originally christened as “Glenn Trapp.” And the circumstances of his death were not 100 percent clear. About ten or fifteen years ago, one of my sources actually said that an American Belizean was saying to him that Kimani hadn’t really died. It is always impossible to verify anything about Kimani. From The Publisher Posted: 29/07/2010 - 09:18 PM I think the most immediate and dramatic difference you will notice between the Africans who have come here from the continent over the last decade or two, as opposed to those of us whose ancestors were enslaved in West Africa and forced to make the three-month Atlantic Ocean voyage in the belly of slave ships centuries ago, is that the continental Africans have a definite dignity, whereas we in the Diaspora often behave like buffoons.