 The UDP's history in the newspaper business starts with the "Beacon", owned by Dean Lindo, which began printing in 1969 and was the main UDP newspaper (replacing "The Reporter").The "Beacon" survived until 1994, but the last years of the newspaper saw it become slowly eclipsed by the new "People's Pulse", headed first by Zelma Jex and later by William Ysaguirre and Ann-Marie Williams.The "Pulse" was the main newspaper for much of the 1990s but shut down like its predecessor after a UDP election loss in 1998.