14th March 2017 Guatemala City
A trek to the lost Mayan city of El Mirador, Part 1
Three years ago, when I first heard I was being posted to Guatemala, I spotted in the guide books a mention of a ruined Mayan city deep in the jungle…
8th March 2017 Guatemala City
Emmeline Pankhurst and Gladys Lanza: being bold for change
Emmeline Pankhurst, the suffragette who led the fight – and it really was a fight – for women’s right to vote in the UK at the turn of the 20th…
9th December 2016 Guatemala City
Human Rights Day
Saturday 10 December marks UN Human Rights Day, which commemorates the day on which the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Speaking in…
3rd March 2016 Guatemala City
Exciting time to be newly arrived Ambassador in Guatemala!
This is my first blog as British Ambassador to Guatemala. I arrived here six months ago, but thought I’d wait a while before starting to blog. I’ll try to write…
15th November 2016 Guatemala City
Supporting children in Guatemala
This week I visited a British NGO working in Guatemala City with children who live on the streets. Street Kids Direct ( www.streetkidsdirect.org.uk ) is a British-run organisation which offers…
29th September 2016 Guatemala City
Travels in Guatemala, Part 2
Tikal As offered, this is the second part of the blog about the adventures we had on holidays in Guatemala, hope you enjoy! The following day we drove up through…
22nd September 2016 Guatemala City
Travel through Guatemala
Guatemala is blessed with a huge diversity of tourist sites. Best known are the charming Spanish-colonial city of Antigua, the stunning Mayan ruins of Tikal, and the beautiful volcano-ringed lake…
14th September 2016 Guatemala City
Thinking of Democracy
As a public servant and as a Briton, to talk about democracy is to talk about something I am passionate about. It’s not that I am an expert in the…
1st August 2016 Guatemala City
Britain in the World
On 23 June, the British people voted to leave the European Union (EU) and British Prime Minister Theresa May has been clear that Brexit means Brexit. But does this mean…
28th June 2016 Guatemala City
Rock and Shakespeare a real treat!
Rock music and Shakespeare may not seem immediately to have much in common. You might see both as a form of art, but that might be as far as the…