60 Minutes: Belize (1988)
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- News report on how life was like in Belize in the late 1980s by 60 Minutes correspondent, the late Morley Safer. It touches on subjects such as cultural integrity, the sugar industry, migration of American entrepreneurs and developers, and especially the influence of American lifestyles, with the invasion of American TV and Coca Cola. Featuring interviews and appearances by Prime Minister Dean Barrow (then Attorney General), Barry Bowen, the late Vernon Harrison Courtenay and the late Emory King.
Reporter: Morley Sales
Date: January 3, 1988 - บันเทิง
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I cried watching this documentary. It looked so beautiful that it almost seems to be another country that I'm looking at. Why can't it be like how it was.
Aren't you from China though?
@@gatheringleaves thats really racist to assume just off my tittle. No, I'm born and raised and have never left Belize. Chun is a common last name in Mopan Mayan. I am an Mayan.
@@marilyn2321 were mayans part of Belize as in Mexico? Or your family migrated to Belize?
@@oprv7770 There were always Mayan in Belize, before the British came. There are about 30 different mayan (different clothes, language and culture) groups in Central America and 3 major in Belize. I am mixed with two groups (Kektchi and Mopan) in Belize. So my people never migrated except for the Yucatecs which migrated from Mexico.
@@marilyn2321 but northern belize was Mexico
Thanks for uploading this. I was the sound man on the story. Great memories of working with Morley and the team, and, of course, the wonderful Belizeans!
David Thomas Hi David. Dan Maudsley from BBC Radio in the UK here. Would love to talk to you about your work on this. We’re planning to feature this Belize 60 Minutes story in a BBC podcast due out next year. Email me at dan.maudsley[at]bbc.co.uk and I’ll get straight back to you.
Stable country ? Belize has not had a war or a civil war for more than 100 years now . No bank in Belize has ever failed, until very recently that is ( 2018 ) . The monetary exchange rate to the U.S. dollar has been 2 to 1 for more than 50 years now. There are least 7 distinct cultures in Belize, with virtually no racial unrest. These are just a few amazing facts about Belize.
Richard Burns thanks some of what you say is true I am from Belize am from corozal a very beautiful and peaceful and quiet place clean water in the sea
Belize is not stable
Belize doesn't even have 100 years of existany lmao. And they use british money.
Havelock Vetinari Belize is a member of the British Commonwealth and it has the queen of England on its bills.
@@Jonathan-em5iw sorry to inform you both here but Belize fiat currency is printed by the Central Bank of Belize which is privately owned by the same cabal that owns all the other Central Banks in the world including the Federal Reserve in the USA.
great vintage footage!
I have watched this full video every year now for quite a few years.It just truly amazes me how far we have come as a nation (despite the politics, natural disasters etc) i believe we are blessed with wealth untold.
I will forever want to continue to be 100% Belizean to my core! 🇧🇿👌🏻🇧🇿👌🏻🇧🇿
I served in Belize several times during my service in the British Army. I have never seen so many snakes and I served in the far and middle East. The beer was surprisingly good but don't touch the rum, Three Barrel, absolutely deadly.
🤣three barrel! What does that mean? I already made the mistake of touching it. No problems tho.
@@beneiseoleinmheart5614 Three Barrel is the name of the local Rum!
😂
Do you wish you invested in property there now?
We used to have antennas made from bamboo poles and we used to watch Another world,Days of our lives and Santa Barbara.
its a gorgeous place like some other places in the world but it genuine orgin of cultural ethnitcity is what makes it belizean .. breath giving for amazement!!!
I visited Belize for the first time this year and I found the people to be amazing. They are certainly not like anyone else in Central or South America.
They are like caribbeans, aren’t they?
@@oprv7770 Belize is part of the CARICOM. Even though geographically we are not in the Caribbean.
Thank you for visiting our beautiful country! Hope you come back again soon
It’s very sad with yt migrants coming over they are culturally appropriating the cultures saying they are belizeans taking away their identities. Belize is welcoming but foreigners need to bring their own culture not take ours away arguing with locals on whose Creole is authentic .
will always LOVE HOME SWEET HOME … can't wait to move back p.s thank you for shearing I was living home in 1988 best time of my life
I did the exact same thing....came to Belize, and left the United State to never go back. Thanks for the video, it was great.
Belize does have a way of sticking on you
Thanks so much for uploading this! I have been looking for this report for many years now!!!
I was in the US Army with a Belize military exchange student on Ft. Sam Houston in combat medic school in 1989. His last name was Zuniga. He told me some insane military stories about his army. He was a really good guy. I wonder if he’s still alive and okay?
Did you get a hold of him? There are some Zuniga’s here in Belize
after living here for more than 30 years and being partners in business with 3 of the gentlemen in this video, I can truly say that Belize is a beautiful place, yes there are areas that need improvement and there are some people that need to attend ethics school. But after seeing what goes on in the USA/Canada/Mexico, i prefer being here.
What is typical cost of living in USD there?
If you think it was nice in 1988, you should have seen it in 1967 when I first visited BRITISH HONDURAS.. I still love it though ( and the people too )...God bless both.
Too bad i wasn't born to see those years :(
Grew up here in the 80s.... Loved every minute of it! So sad to see how so much of it is deteriorating and crime is up. I hope it can turn around. My heart is still here.
my uncle that at 11:04 in the green shirt, RIP Tio Enrique
Isaw him
Wish there were more videos like this. ❤️🇧🇿
sexy
If only Belize was the same 💪🏾❤️🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿
I like this video , I'm from elnsalavdor and I used to live there.
Thanks for sharing, nice video
Love it. Thanks for sharing. No matter your political views, you can't be Belizean if you don't take a look at this video.
True
yeah mien...I wish I caught on sooner...but now that I have it is a must see for sure!
Great memories 1988.when this documentary was film,I was a young Detective Cop in my middle twenties in the City.
You BETTER BELIZE IT!🇧🇿🙏
Haha..wow...look at Barrow. Mein I was 4 lol... mein... the old swing bridge.. haven't seen the bridge swing in a while tho.
I LOVE MY 🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿
My beautiful hometown.
does anybody have the full 60 minute video for this?
Amazing! We are working on a documentary about Belize in the 1980s, and the beginning of their coastal planning. Do you know how to access this original footage?
Get this everybody: I'm a white dude from Chicago. Never knew my father or anything about him. Recently did a DNA test n what showed up on his side? That I am many things/mixed but also am 9% Mesoamerican and Andean . Wow. That means my dads ancestors are from the Andes Mountains and Norh America! Makes me a descendent of Native Americans and the INCA. Pyramid builders are my ancestors , so cool. Just had the share.
Here now we are in 2024 & can we still continue to say yes to all those following questions answered by Dean Barrow. Where is the political stability now?
I love how the Immigrant from Texas is complaining about the immigrants from Nicaragua not being Belizean enough.
he was the worst. i hate that they spoke to him
🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿my home country!!!!
thanks for uploading, where did we go so wrong?
Mario Vasquez does this really work holy s*** later than I thought. So it looks like a need to also dictate true? Interesting. This is what Jim ship must have been all excited about and he was drinking texting and driving LOL
globalization
New World Order
So Mario, where exactly did we go wrong ? Because I just met a gentleman from Belize about a year ago. He left Belize when he was young and has been living here in the U.S. for decades. And his statement to me was " If Belize was the way it is now I would have never left it in the first place ". Much progress has been made in Belize, with much more to go.
That’s Rapper Shyne Dad Dean Borrow
Back then Belize was soo safe.Now it has a lot of violence here.love from Belize🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿
is it dangerous????? Why? Where do you live?
@@fabriciocrasher7917 I LIVE IN BELIZE!
@@raulcastillo2625 duhhhhhhhhh
are you older enough to remember that time.
1988 I was 19
@@fabriciocrasher7917 No. Crime is in Belize City. Once you get out of Belize City very safe.
1:23 Dean Barrow (Rapper Shyne’s father)
Those who try to drag the UK down should see that not everything they did was bad, btw I was stationed there in 1988, helping to keep the country safe, until the BDF could take over.
Love my country
Nooo, why does Dean Barrow have hair on his head? What kind of abomination is that?
🤣🤣🤣
Barry Bowen. He and his wife and kids where killed in a plane crash, I believe. Their own private plane. Very tragic.
no, he along with Jill and Michael Casey of ALbany NY and their two children. the Casey's were teacher and principal respectively, of Gallon Jug School. It was said the school would have been renamed in honor of their service.
I want the photos from this video
Great example of how idiotic Regan era politics actually were
Ironic that Cannabis was burnt down and cola moved in, the truth be told , cannabis kills cancer and Cola / Sugar feeds cancer!
“Starts at 6 O’clock, give or take a few minutes” haha
What's good Karl?
Trust the government, ha
Trust the police, ha
Trust the courts, ha
I Laugh at this, it might have been true at one point but not now(2019)
I love and live in this country but it's got so much wrong with it
Right, thinking the same. Says by the narrator that we have no corruption, around that time, it was just the start.
At least you don't have Trump.
@@georgeb.wolffsohn30 is he really that bad? That's a genuine question, I don't know anything about U.S. politics.
@@deanafriesen9507 watch the recent election fraud to understand how bad the corruption is in America
@@georgeb.wolffsohn30 n
I 💘 my #Belize
yo that's shyne pops
Very wild, the cover picture (man on the balcony) is the very building I bought and had a Bed & Breakfast in, address is 61 Front street, 2 doors down from the "Big Apple" dance Hall. Streets were filled with feces, reek of urine and gangs robbing everybody. Incorrigibly corrupt and drug crime infested. That swing bridge off Queen st is a last such bridge in the world. Go at your own risk and you better have a good Glock 9mm to protect yourself. Why do you think fugitive McAfee fled there to hide, he could pay off all the corrupt govt officials. This story is old, dishonest and doesn't tell or show the true state of affairs.
What use to be.
That was shyne's father ☺
Cool Fact: Dean Barrow is the father of the rapper Shyne
THAT'S GANGSTER!
The good old days I would say... Today our little country is been wrongly govern.. if this does not stop there's no future for Belize..
I'm sorry..."Never invaded or been invaded???" So the Caste War of the Yucatán apparently never happened?
He said belize as a country!¡ not a colony 300+years ago
i was part of spearhead battalion flew to belize in 77 had christmas out there, the guats were going to invade for once the intel was right we got out there before they did.....glad we didn't have to go and remove them.young lad of 19 then didnt have a care in the world....fittest i ever was back then...
Hasn’t never been “invaded” what about the British???
Belmopan
Idk if this documentary could happen to be more freaking biased..
🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿 Dis da wai yu na mek dehn bakra pipl fahn di Stayts reech da Bileez ahn mek dehn ron bowt ... eevn tideh moa poa pipl egzis 🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿
Reading this gave me anxiety 😂. This is another level of creole
@@somewherefaraway8037Wi ga fi wee oan dikshineri fi Bileezyan Inglish Kriol. 😁
@@CaribbeanColiseum translation: we go for we own dictionary here in Belizeansi only just learned that in my own. Engaged to a kriol Belizean listening to them
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If this opinion piece of Belize was ever true, then fine. Now, it is like Detroit without the infrastructure. A dangerous chocolate country.
Do not compare Belize to Detroit
Old School ouch that was quite rude