Former Minister Fred Hunter Senior has recently released a new book; titled, “The History of the Sovereignty of Belize by Occupation Force of Arms Treaties”. As the title suggests, the book puts together in sequential order historical facts in regards to the sovereignty integrity of Belize. Hunter says that a great deal of research was done in order for the book to be informative.
FREN HUNTER
“This book was written specifically to deal with the problems of the referendum. Being on the referendum committee I realize there is such a lack of knowledge of the true history of Belize. And the strength of our case that was not out there. False conclusions were made by the very people who were supposed to defend us in the court. So I decided I was going to write this book get it into the schools if I could. The book is designed to be student friendly. There is no word in there that you have to go to a dictionary. Except the one on the cover-Sovereignty. That’s the biggest word you see in the book. So it was put out there so the people could know about because as a child, as a young man growing up I couldn’t get the history of Belize. When I got hold of Winsor Lynn’s History of British Honduras it was an eye opener.”
HIPOLITO NOVELO, REPORTER
How long did it take for you to put it together? There must have been a great deal of time invested in researching.
FREN HUNTER
“I spent four years researching but serious researching. Four years ago I decided I was going start to write it. I sat down and read Winsor Lynn’s History of British Honduras and I started reading other books and reading other books and I started at history and I was about three quarter done. I don’t own a computer so everything was hand written. I was reading 2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the afternoon and 2 hours at night. I have been researching and writing for four years and I am still doing research because material has come up since this book has been written that’s very pertinent to the history of Belize.”
Hunter says that three thousand copies were produced and it can be bought for thirty five dollars at Brodies, Angelus Press and Daker’s Store among others.
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