Last night, we showed you the discussion that the Belize History Association held in memory of Belizean National Hero Philip Goldson. Though, nominally, his stature in the pantheon of national heroes, is the same as George Price, Goldson's legacy is not nearly as clear cut as the man dubbed the Father of The Nation. And, ultimately, that's because history is written about and by the winners, and Goldson's HIP and NIP, always played second fiddle to Price's pre-eminent PUP.

And the bitterness that goes along with any prolonged political rivalry - particularly from Goldson to Price - ran very deep. It is an article of faith for the NIP that Price sold out to Guatemala – a point that was somewhat vindicated in the 2011 authorized biography of Price when he acknowledged that he received funding from the Guatemalans – but only on the principle that they had a common enemy, the British.

And while time's torch slowly illuminates those darkened corners of history, still, there's no easy congruence between the flexible Price, and the doctrinaire Goldson. But, those divergent paths had the same starting point: the People's Committee in 1949. Headquarters? The Price Family home on Pickstock Street. In an extended interview he granted to Nuri Muhammad back in 1991 in Los Angeles, California, Goldson went back to the start, where as a journalist, activist, and a political aspirant, he was a part of history in the making:

As you heard yesterday, the Goldson experts say that he never toed a political line if a party's policies or direction were against his own principles. For 16 years, Goldson remained a member of the PUP, and in 1965 he resigned citing, what he felt was George Price's "Pro-Guatemalan" push. He explained to Nuri Muhammad that he could no longer support the direction that the PUP was going, and he left:

When Goldson left, he went on to form the Honduras Independence Party with his ally Leigh Richardson. They later merged with the National Party of Belize, to become the National Independence Party, or NIP – which became the precursor of the now UDP. Eventually, Goldson, the uber-nationalist, was labelled a pro-colonialist who was trying to get in the way of Belizean Independence. Now, this is a man who was jailed by the Colonial government for sedition, for what he wrote in a newspaper. So, how did this man who was basically a political prisoner of the colonial government end up branded as sort of sellout to the Brits? Well, in that 1991 interview he said that it was PUP political propaganda to smear his image:

Again, that interview was granted to Nuri Mohammed when he was the host of a radio show called Belize Caribbean Pulse.