Abstract
After an initial period in which the printing needs of the British settlements in Central America were met from Jamaica, printing was introduced into Belize in 1825. The settlement's first press was unusual in being bought with public funds and controlled by the magistrates. Subsequent printing developments in Belize were closer to the norm for British colonies in the West Indies, with government contractual printing and newspaper publishing forming the mainstay of most printers' businesses in the nineteenth century. Printing for two other former British areas, the Bay Islands and the Mosquito Coast, is also discussed. The article is based on a variety of sources, principally the Belize Archives and the sets of Belize papers preserved in the British Library. Handlists of Belize printers and of Belizean newspapers published in the nineteenth century are included as appendices.
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