_{Henry Clifton Fairweather}

by Evan X Hyde

BELIZE CITY, Mon. Feb. 24, 2025

One of the puzzles of Belizean political history is absolutely how low-profile the personality of Mr. Henry Fairweather has been. He was a loyalist of Hon. Philip Goldson’s Opposition National Independence Party (NIP) and ran as the NIPDM Freetown constituency candidate in 1969 and then as the UDP Freetown candidate in 1974. 

In both of these elections, he was opposing Hon. George Price, who would have to be considered a professional politician by that time. Mr. Fairweather was a surveyor by profession. Mr. Price defeated Mr. Fairweather in both elections.

In last Friday’s issue of this newspaper (page 7), I reproduced a few pages from a book of a public speech by Mr. Fairweather in 1967 which featured the fact that Guatemala had accepted the boundaries of British Honduras in 1933. Mr. Fairweather had been active as a surveyor in those 1933 operations.

Subsequent to the publication of that article last Friday, it occurred to me that we had not listed all of Mr. Fairweather’s well-earned qualifications. I thought that was somewhat of an injustice, hence the title of this article. 

Respect to the late Mr. Henry Fairweather.  

(AMANDALA Ed. Note: Underlining the extreme relevance of the article referred to above, “Guatemala accepted B.H. boundaries in 1933,” we feel duty bound to repeat it in this issue for the benefit of those readers who might have missed it last week.)