Upon Hyde's return to Belize in 1968, the nation he had left behind two years prior was in turmoil due to the latest rejected proposal to end the Guatemalan claim.
[citation needed] These early seeds bore fruit when, on New Years Day, 1969, Hyde participated in a protest at a local cinema against the Vietnam War film The Green Berets, starring John Wayne.
Hyde helped formed UBAD in February and took over its presidency in March after initial leader Lionel Clarke faced charges of inappropriate conduct.
They later separated and Hyde had three more children with another woman, Claudette Coleman: Cordel (present Lake Independence representative and Deputy Prime Minister), as well as Vonetta (a lawyer currently residing in London) and Michael (manager of Krem Radio).
[citation needed] Hyde published Knocking Our Own Ting, a satirical analysis of the Battle of St. George's Caye, in 1969; North Amerikkkan Blues in 1971, profiling his time at Dartmouth, and The Crowd Called UBAD in 1972, a complete history of the organization to that point.
After the dissolution of UBAD in February 1974, Hyde turned to journalism, while publishing two other works: Feelings in 1975, consisting mainly of fiction pieces; and Poems of Passion, Patriotism and Protest, a poetry collaboration with Rowland Parks and Richard "Dickie" Bradley in 1981.
Hyde's three earliest works returned to print along with other non-fiction pieces and past editorials of the Amandala to 1991 in X-Communication, published by the Angelus Press in 1994.