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'''Glenn Derick Godfrey''' S.C. (born 7 June 19481949) is a [[Belize]]an politician, jurist and writer. He served as the [[Attorney-General of Belize|Attorney General]] and Ministers of Tourism and Environment under prime minister [[George Cadle Price]] between 1989 and 1993. A member of the [[People's United Party|People's United Party]] (PUP) he served two terms in the [[House of Representatives (Belize)|Belize National Assembly]] from 1989 to 1998 representing the [[Belize Rural South]] [[Constituencies of Belize|constituency]]. He was also Honorary Consul of Finland to Belize from 2002 to 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Belize Diplomatic and Consular List|url=https://mfa.gov.bz/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Diplomatic-Consular-List-Mar20.pdf|access-date=2022-01-02|archive-date=2022-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102152642/https://mfa.gov.bz/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Diplomatic-Consular-List-Mar20.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> He currently serves as the managing director of Glenn D. Godfrey & Co LLP.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glenn D. Godfrey S.C. - Glenn D. Godfrey & Co. LLP|date=21 November 2019|url=https://godfreylaw.net/team/glenn-d-godfrey/,%20https://godfreylaw.net/team/glenn-d-godfrey/|access-date=2022-01-02|language=en-US}}</ref>

Godfrey was a member of the [[House of Representatives (Belize)|Belize National Assembly]] from 1989 to 1998. In the 1993 election, he ran in the constituency and won with 56.2% of the vote to Santiago Castillo of the UDP.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} In the 1989 Belize general election, he again ran for the PUP in the [[Belize Rural South]] constituency and won the election with 64.8% of the vote against Rudolph Thompson of the UDP.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} He served as Attorney General and Minister of Tourism and the Environment of Belize from 1989 to 1993, during which time, the Belize Asset Protection Trust Act passed.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Godfrey|first=Glenn|date=2011|title=Belize Asset Protection Trust Act: Its Origins, Design and Purpose|url=https://www.belizeattorneys.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/assetprotection.pdf|journal=International Law Quarterly|volume=Spring 2011|pages=1–3}}</ref>

Godfrey received a Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude in English Literature from [[Xavier University of Louisiana|Xavier University]] of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1971. He was awarded a Master of Arts degree in English Literature by [[Stanford University]], Palo Alto, California in 1974. Godfrey was a lecturer in English and Writer-in-Residence at Xavier University of Louisiana from 1973 to 1975. In 1977 Godfrey was awarded a Bachelor of Law degree by the Faculty of Law of the [[University of the West Indies]], Cave Hill Campus, St. Michael, Barbados. He further was awarded a Certificate of Legal Education by the [[Norman Manley Law School]], Mona, Jamaica in 1979 and was admitted  to practice at the Bar of Belize that same year.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glenn D. Godfrey S.C. - Glenn D. Godfrey & Co. LLP|date=21 November 2019|url=https://godfreylaw.net/team/glenn-d-godfrey/,%20https://godfreylaw.net/team/glenn-d-godfrey/|access-date=2022-01-02|language=en-US}}</ref>

* ''Ambergris Caye : Paradise with a Past'' (1983) Cubola Productions<ref>{{Cite book|last=Godfrey|first=Glenn D|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ambergris-caye-paradise-with-a-past/oclc/15378102?referer=di&ht=edition|title=Ambergris Caye: paradise with a past|date=1983|publisher=Cubola Productions|location=Belize, Central America|language=English|oclc=15378102}}</ref>

*''Ambergris Caye History'' (1999) Cubola Productions<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ambergris Caye Belize History, San Pedro|url=https://ambergriscaye.com/pages/mayan/amberhistory.html|access-date=2022-01-02|website=ambergriscaye.com|archive-date=2022-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102160207/https://ambergriscaye.com/pages/mayan/amberhistory.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

* ''The Sinners' Bossanova'' (1987) Cubola Productions<ref>{{Cite book|last=Godfrey|first=Glenn D|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/sinners-bossanova/oclc/17701665&referer=brief_results|title=The sinners' bossanova|date=1987|publisher=Cubola Productions|isbn=978-968-6233-01-8|location=Belize, Central America|language=English|oclc=17701665}}</ref>

* The Children Rescued from Original Sin (1974) Stanford University<ref>{{Cite thesis|title=The children rescued from original sin;|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/children-rescued-from-original-sin/oclc/38657986|date=1974|language=English|first=Glenn D|last=Godfrey|oclc=38657986}}</ref>

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