After six weeks without a printed edition - we note that the Belize Times was back on the streets today - and in full colour.
We'd say it's a special Independence edition as it is headlined, "PUP Honours Price."
No one seems to know whether it will continue - but the prevailing wisdom is that it is a one-off effort - and the paper will return to a strictly electronic version in the weeks coming. Again, that's the consensus of those we spoke to, but no one seems to know for sure.
Notably, one former PUP politician and representative writes in the Reporter newspaper lamenting the loss of the paper after 56 years, also makes some hair raising claims about George Price.
Alejandro Vernon from Toledo writes a colourful history of the paper -explaining that quote, "it takes money to run a paper." And wehre did the PUP get the money at the start? Vernon says that the first Times printing press was donated by the Guatemalan Government.
Vernon also claims that at the outset Price received money from the Guatemalans to quote "upkeep the PUP and the Belize Times."
He says that three PUP Assemblymen learned on a trip to Guatemala that Price received a substantial monthly stipend from Guatemalan storngman Ydigoras Fuentes.
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