People's United Party Politicians - Phillip Goldson, George Cadle Price, Ralph Fonseca, John Briceno, Godfrey Smith, Theodore Aranda (Paperback)

Chapters: Phillip Goldson, George Cadle Price, Ralph Fonseca, John Briceno, Godfrey Smith, Theodore Aranda, Anthony Chanona, Marcial Mes, Jorge Espat, Jose Coye, Juan Vildo Marin, Valdemar Castillo, Maxwell Samuels. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Philip Stanley Wilberforce Goldson (July 25, 1923-October 3, 2001) was a Belizean newspaper editor, activist and politician. He served in the House of Representatives of Belize as member for the Albert Division from 1961 to 1998 and twice as a Minister. He was a founding member of the People's United Party (PUP), National Independence Party (NIP), United Democratic Party (UDP) and National Alliance for Belizean Rights (NABR). Goldson was born in Belize City to Peter Edward Goldson and Florence Babb and attended St. Mary's Primary School. Although he never had an opportunity to go to highschool he studied at night and succeeded in obtaining the Cambridge University Overseas Junior Certificate in 1939 and the Senior School Certificate in 1941. For much of the early 1940s he participated in the Open Forum movement featuring George Price and Leigh Richardson as well as older activists such as Clifford Betson and Antonio Soberanis. But his main job was as editor of the Belize Billboard, which he took up in 1941.Channel 5, September 19, 2001 From 1941 to 1947, he worked in the British Honduras Civil Service, at the same time started his journalism career doing editing work at Civil Service Chronicle. With the advent of the Nationalist Movement, he wrote news items for the Belize Billboard. The plight of the workers in Belize led him into trade unionism. He became the National Organizer of The General Workers Union in 1949, later becoming its General Secretary. In 1950, Belize's first major political party, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=83247