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Its offices are at the PUP’s Belize City headquarters at 3 Queen Street, Belize City. As of August 2006, it has published over 4,500 issues, making it the longest continuously published newspaper in Belize since 1950.
Its motto is “The Truth Shall Make You Free”, a shortened form of Bible verse John 8:32: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (King James Version)
They published it on Thursdays and sells for BZ$1.
The UDP’s history in the newspaper business starts with the Beacon, owned by Dean Lindo, which began printing in 1969 and was the main UDP newspaper (replacing The Reporter). The Beacon survived until 1994, but the last years of the newspaper saw it become slowly eclipsed by the new People’s Pulse, headed first by Zelma Jex and later by William Ysaguirre and Ann-Marie Williams. The Pulse was the major newspaper for much of the 1990s but shut down like its predecessor after a UDP election loss in 1998.
Formation
With the defunct People’s Pulse scheduled for shutdown after the 1998 general elections, in which the UDP lost, it was thought that the party needed a new image. The Guardian was expected to be part of that new image. With this in mind, the first issue of the newspaper rolled off the press in October 1998, even as the Pulse faced unpaid bills.
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