BELIZEAN POLITICS, 2006-7   

December  2006

In late 1999, I wrote my first page on Belizean Politcs.  You can read it here.  I decided that I would not focus on Politics, but rather upon Economics, and I created my Economics 101 page and continued to expand on it over the years.   I have watched the Belizean Political Scene with interest and have always been tempted to comment, but I have held my counsel on this site.

Instead, I have been active on a yahoo groups list called bz-policsci (belizean political scence.  You can examine and possible join that list here. (You need to be a member to read the files and archives.)  

The moderator of that list is Trevor Vernon.  Trevor and I have had many interesting discussions, both on and off that list, and he is a Belizean with remarkable integrity (a quality I find wanting in most Belizeans.)

Most recently, Trevor and his wife Karla have launched a new weekly newspaper, the Independent Reformer.  I will describe it here.  .

I will add many comments on my view of the current political situation in the next few days.  

Shadow players: ecotourism, development, corruption and state politics in Belize  New (This is a pdf file on this site.) I first read this interesting paper in 2002, and it gave me a much better understanding of "the way things work in Belize."  It has been posted on the bz-polisci list (yahoogroups) for a couple of years, but I think it's important enuf to put it here.  Rosaleen has just written a new book, which you can read about here.

June 2007. Update.

We are supporting the Independent Reformer, a rebel newspaper dedicated to political reform.    We have are also publishing a proposed political platform (called a Manifesto in Belize) for the upcoming elections.  You can find a copy here.

The democratic process of self-government is alive and well in Belize!  

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