 Although he never had an opportunity to go to a secondary school he studied at night and succeeded in obtaining the Cambridge University Overseas Junior Certificate in 1939 and the Senior School Certificate in 1941.For much of the early 1940s he participated in the Open Forum movement featuring George Price and Leigh Richardson as well as older activists such as Clifford Betson and Antonio Soberanis.But his main job was as editor of the "Belize Billboard", which he took up in 1941.Philip Goldson was a hardworking man

From 1941 to 1947, Goldson worked in the British Honduras Civil Service, at the same time he started his journalism career doing editing work at the "Civil Service Chronicle".