from a friend

In a "certain section of the press" in recent days we have had a debate about our country's flag. And about our coat of arms.

One writer is trying to make the coat of arms found on our flag "revert" to depicting two black individuals.

I've been updating Belize.com over the past few weeks, primarily upgrading the software platform on which this puppy runs. The programming has me resisting a traditional programmer's occupational hazard - pulling out some of my hair.

As I do this project we are in parallel updating articles and images. I figure it will take about six months at an article a day.

So the website is a mix of the old and new.

I have just completed a page on our flag and national symbols and this includes a new side-bar on the design of the coat of arms and flag. This from my recollection - I was there. As a young man I interacted with both of the designers. Sat at many pre-independence briefings. Everal was my first boss.

http://www.belize.com/belize-flag.html

Really interesting Marty, History in the making, I liked the machete idea.

Thanks for sharing, Marty! The Belize flag and the West Virginia flag are amazingly similar. The WV flag has coal miners in the same stance as the woodcutters...We've wondered who the designers of the belize flag are, perhaps they have a WV connection?

.......or vice versa.........

No, WV became a state during the civil war...long before the Belize flag was even thought of!