Wednesday, September 30, 2015

COROZAL GETS NEW OPERATING THEATRE

Inauguration Ceremony was held September 18, 2015 for the residents of Corozal to get a chance to see the new Operating Theatre at the Corozal Community Hospital which came at a cost of approximately over BZ$1 Million. First Surgery in the new theatre will be done in the coming weeks.

This news is welcoming to the Corozal District residents who remember that many years ago Corozal did have an Operating Theatre in the Corozal Hospital. Said Operating Theatre was later removed and taken to Orange Walk to be used at the Northern Regional Hospital.

It has been a long time but I am sure the people of the Corozal District are happy to know they will no longer have to travel all the way to Orange Walk for their surgeries.




















Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Caribbean Spirit Carnival Group of COROZAL TOWN

The Caribbean Spirit Carnival Group also participated in the Corozal Carnival Parade. Hats off to this group for their wonderful costume and vibrant performance. I was not there but i was told it was great!!!!



















Friday, September 25, 2015

CRYSTAL MORENO THOMPSON'S DIAMOND PRINCESS WIN FIRST PLACE AT CARNIVAL



IT IS NO WONDER THAT CRYSTAL HAS DONE IT AGAIN!!! WITH ALL THE DEDICATION PUT INTO PRACTICING AND PREPARING COSTUMES IT IS NO WONDER HOW THEY WON. HATS OFF TO YOU AGAIN THIS YEAR, LIKE YOU DID LAST YEAR, CRYSTAL!!!!


THE WINNING TEAM!!!







Friday, September 18, 2015

FIRST AN FOREMOST, I AM NOT A POLITICIAN... I AM A BELIZEAN!

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MOST OF MY READERS ARE BELIZEANS BUT FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T THERE MAY STILL BE A FEW WHO ARE WONDERING... WHERE THE HECK IS BELIZE? FOR THOSE WHO ARE STILL UNFAMILIAR WITH BELIZE IN CENTRAL AMERICA, I HAVE ADDED THE MAPS I HAVE ON THIS POST TO HELP YOU TO SEE WHERE BELIZE IS.

THE TINY LITTLE NATION I CALL HOME IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF GOD'S WONDERS WITH SO MUCH BEAUTY IN ITS LAND, ITS HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE!

IN SEPTEMBER, BELIZEANS CELEBRATE TWO VERY IMPORTANT NATIONAL HOLIDAYS.

FIRST ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, THE BATTLE OF SAINT GEORGE'S CAYE IS CELEBRATED. HISTORY TELLS US OF THE BRAVERY OF THE FIRST BELIZEANS TO DEFEND THIS LAND FROM THE SPANISH INVADERS OF THE TIME. LEAST WE FORGET, IT WAS THEIR COURAGE AND PERSISTENCE THAT HELPED THEM TO VICTORY THAT DAY! I PRAY THAT THE BELIZEANS OF TODAY ARE AS BRAVE, FILLED WITH COURAGE AND DETERMINATION TO FIGHT FOR THE LAND THAT THEY CALL HOME FROM ANY ONE OR ANY GOVERNMENT WHO WOULD TAKE THAT RIGHT AWAY FROM THEM.

THE SECOND CELEBRATION IS THE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF BELIZE ON SEPTEMBER 21ST!

MOST COUNTRIES HAVE HAD TO SHED A LOT OF BLOOD FOR THEIR INDEPENDENCE. THERE ARE THOSE WHO WILL TELL YOU THAT BELIZE IS DIFFERENT AS THERE WAS NO WAR TO FIGHT FOR OUR INDEPENDENCE. HOWEVER, BLOOD WAS SHED. BACK IN THE DAY WHEN THE THEN GOVERNEMENT OF BELIZE INTRODUCED THE IDEA OF INDEPENDENCE, THE OPPOSITION, WHO NOW RULE AS GOVERNEMENT OF BELIZE, WERE VERY MUCH AGAINST IT. STRANGELY, THEIR REASON WAS THAT INDEPENDENCE WOULD BE THE END OF BELIZE AS A NATION AND THAT IT WOULD OPEN THE DOORS FOR GUATEMALA TO TAKE OVER. THEY CLAIMED THAT THE THEN PRIME MINISTER, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE CADLE PRICE HAD TOO MUCH TIES WITH GUATEMALA AND THAT HE WOULD HAND BELIZE OVER THE MOMENT BELIZE WAS AN INDEPENDENT NATION. THERE WERE PROTESTS STAGED IN THE DISTRICTS AND AS I LIVED IN COROZAL I CAN TELL YOU SOME OF WHAT HAPPENED THERE. ONE SUCH DAY A MARCH LED BY HON. FLORENCIO MARIN SR. STARTED IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE ON THE BAY AND AS THEY TURNED THE CURVE, ROQUE MARIN HAD HIS TRACTOR PARKED ACROSS THE STREET TO STOP THE MARCH. THE MARCHERS WERE ARMED WITH THEIR MACHETES AND RIFLES AS THEY WERE FARMERS AND THEY PUSHED THAT TRACTOR OUT OF THEIR WAY AND PROCEEDED THEIR MARCH WHICH WAS FOR AN AGREEMENT WITH GUATEMALA TO RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF BELIZE...THE HEADS OF AGREEMENT IT WAS CALLED. THE OPPOSITION WAS READY AND WHEN THE MARCHERS GOT TO THE BUILDING THAT ONCE STOOD ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE MOTHERS' PARK, SHOTS WERE FIRED AND BOTTLES OF KEROSENE WITH PIECES OF CLOTH THAT WAS LIT WERE THROWN AT THE MARCHERS. BY THE TIME THE MARCH WAS OVER YOUNG'S DRUG STORE HAD SMASHED WINDOWS AND HIS CAR WAS OVER TURNED AND A FEW PEOPLE WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH PELLETS IN THEM AND ONE MAN WAS DEAD!HIS NAME WAS ABEL RIVEROLL. BLOOD AND TEARS WERE SHED THAT DAY AS WE MOVED ON TO INDEPENDENCE.

HOW AMAZING HISTORY HAS BECOME! FOR MANY YEARS GUATEMALA WAS CALM AND RESPECTED THE NATION AND AS THINGS WOULD TURN OUT THE NEWS TODAY IS THAT IT IS THOSE WHO WERE SO STRONG IN PROTECTING BELIZE THAT SEEM TO BE HANDING IT OVER ON A PLATTER TO THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT.

I AM NOT A POLITICIAN AND I HAVE NEVER ASPIRED TO BE ONE. I AM A WRITER, A POET, AN EDUCATOR, A MOTHER, A DAUGHTER AND A GRANDMOTHER OF THE SOIL... I AM A BELIZEAN! I ONLY WANT WHAT IS GOOD FOR BELIZE. I PRAY GUATEMALA IS NOT GIVEN A HALF OF THIS BEAUTIFUL JEWEL WE CALL BELIZE DURING MY LIFETIME NOR AFTER.

IN A FEW DAYS IT WILL BE INDEPENDENCE DAY! MAY WE FOREVER BE ABLE TO CHERISH THIS COUNTRY AND SING OF THE LAND OF THE FREE BY THE CARIB SEA!


BRENDA A. YSAGUIRRE
SEPT 18, 2015


Tuesday, September 15, 2015

CHILDREN OF BELIZE PARADE IN COROZAL AS WE NEAR INDEPENDENCE DAY

CHILDREN OF COROZAL PARADING SEPTEMBER 2015
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ATTENTION EVERYONE WHO IS IN COROZAL OR CAN MAKE IT TO COROZAL ON WEDNESDAY!!!



The COROZAL HOUSE OF CULTURAL (NICH) CORDIALLY INVITES EVERYONE to join them this Wednesday September 16, at 10 am as they launch the Road to Independence Exhibit. This exhibit is an invaluable historical documentation chronicling the struggles and triumphs of British Honduras and Belize leading up to September 21, 1981.

Monday, September 14, 2015

HIGH SCHOOLS RE OPENED LAST WEEK OF AUGUST IN BELIZE

EVERY DAY IS A NEW DAY FOR THE YOUTHS OF BELIZE. EVERY DAY THEY SET OUT TO LEARN MORE, TO ACHIEVE MORE AND TO BE MORE THAN THEY WOULD NORMALLY BE.

OUR HATS GO OFF TO ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AS THEY MOVE UP THE PATH TO ANOTHER LEVEL OF THEIR EDUCATION.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE HIGH SCHOOL GOERS IN BELIZE. HAVE A WONDERFUL SCHOOL YEAR!

BELOW I HAVE PICTURES OF A FEW YOUNG BELIZEANS WHO RETURNED TO HIGH SCHOOL OR BEGAN HIGH SCHOOL ON AUGUST 28TH, 2015. THEY, LIKE MANY OF THEIR PEERS WILL BE ABLE TO WORK TOWARDS MAKING BELIZE ALL IT CAN BE ONCE THEY HAVE FINISHED THEIR EDUCATION.



Courtney Gillett, 1st Form Student at Corozal Community College


Minette Ponce is a 2nd Year Student at Belmopan Comprehensive High School


3rd form 1 Science Student



Corrine Diana Ferguson and Courtney Erlene Ferguson are both 12 and they are 1st Formers at Corozal Community College .


Georgina Yam is 12 and attending Escuela Secundaria Tecnica Mexico