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Have you ever wanted to explore one of the Seven Underwater Wonders of the World.… paddle a canoe down a jungle river as iguanas sun themselves on tree limbs overhead.… explore a newly excavated Mayan city where kings held court a thousand years ago...camp for the night on a tiny island surrounded by its own private reef....or stroll along jungle paths in the world's only jaguar preserve? All this is possible in Belize.

Belize is a country where a pristine environment greets visitors from around the globe, and where living coral gardens and exotic marine life highlight the Western hemisphere's largest Barrier Reef.

Above all, Belize has more than its share of pristine beauty sculpted in our mountains, tropical rain forests, ancient Mayan Kingdoms,Belize has the most extensive cave system in Central America. extensive caves, meandering waterways, and underwater worlds.
 


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YWCA RECEIVES DONATION FROM BELIZEAN AMERICAN
April 30, 2009


The Young Women’s Christian Association is the beneficiary of a kind donation from friends abroad. Today the Belize Association of Florida donated two brand new Dell computers to the continuation school. While it might not seem much for the faculty it marks the beginning of an endeavor in creating a computer lab for its students. Receiving the contribution on behalf of the institution was its president Dame Elaine Middleton.

Dame Elaine Middleton; President, YMCA
“We have worked with the Belize Association in Florida on more than one occasion. I think the last time was when we had a candidate from them for Ms. Y International. We have also worked with them from the stand point of the Consortium for Development. They do not call themselves by that name but they are also a member of that organization. That is an organization that also works for the welfare of others and I hope the girls who are here today will take example from this event today. I hope that they will make themselves concerned about the welfare of other people.”

Following the brief ceremony Love News spoke with Carl Diaz. Diaz and his wife are both representatives of the Belize Association of Florida.
Carl Diaz; Belize Association of Florida
“The donation came about with a participant that was in the Ms. Y Pageant last September I believe; Ms. Glenda Lewis. She is also a member of the Belize Association for a number of years. She came in and she saw the situation here and she suggested that they could use these two computers. We put it to the board and it was approved that we would donate two computers today to the YWCA.”
Middleton further explained what the intended use of the computers will be.
Dame Elaine Middleton; President, YWCA

“Well the intention is to have them available for the use of the girls in the health program. We are trying to set up a lab at the moment so that the girls can learn how to use the computers. Because we are self supported we have to go very slowly so we get them in twos and threes. We are very grateful to the Belize Association of Florida for giving us this two today because that will give us the start.”
According to Diaz both machines are valued at approximately one thousand five hundred US dollars.

 

 

VOTE BELIZE

Maybe you have watched NBC and you are familiar with Matt Lauer on NBC
morning show. Every year he does a segment called "Where in The World is Matt Lauer".

There is an online list where you can cast your vote on which country
you think he should visit in 2009.  Our country of 
BELIZE is in the
running and your vote is needed to make it happen.



        http://www.. <http://msnbc.msn.com/id/23960057/>
msnbc.msn.com/id/23960057/  to cast your vote for BELIZE .


Please forward info to friends/associates to spread the world and big up BELIZE!!
Remember only one vote per computer is allowed.

 

 

 Vol. 11 - No. 10
March 15th, 2009

                Taking it to the Xtreme!
First Belizean aims to set a world record

 

The extreme sport of kite surfing has become a very popular sport worldwide and in San Pedro it has gained much ground in the popularity ranks amongst thrill seekers and sports enthusiast. One young man in San Pedro is taking up the challenge of setting a world record of being the first Belizean to be in the Guinness Book of World Records by being the first to kite surf the entire length of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.

21-year-old Martin John Leslie will attempt to set the record of kite surfing in one continuous direction for 600 miles and he plans on doing so in four days. Martin John is set to kite surf the largest Barrier Reef in the Western Hemisphere at the end of this month. His journey will begin at Isla Contoy, Mexico (just above Cancun) and end at the Sapodilla Cayes in Toledo.

Martin John has been kite surfing for five years now and has been arduously practicing for the event for more than two months. He has managed to kite surf from San Pedro Town to Belize City in one and a half hours this past Sunday.

Representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records will be coming to the country to witness the event that is being sponsored by SEAduced by Belize, The Belize Tourism Board and Hol Chan Marine Reserve. More contacts are being made to obtain more international media coverage for the event.

We will keep you posted on Martin’s progress and have full coverage of his amazing fete. Ambergris Today wishes Martin John the best of luck! Make us proud, Martin John!

 

 

                                 Blue Hole featured on NBC’s Today Show

When viewers of NBC’s The Today Show tuned in this morning, they found Ann Curry in Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa; Meredith Viera in Australia; Al Roker in Iceland and Matt Lauer from the Blue Hole in Belize. Lauer toured the world renowned environmental site diving, in a helicopter, and by boat. In NBC’s Ends of the Earth series, Lauer and his co-hosts are bringing attention to sites threatened by global warming. Here are some highlights from Lauer in Belize.

Meredith Viera, The Today Show
“No, that is not a strange sea creature, that is Matt Lauer hovering to the surface of the Blue Hole off of Belize.”

Matt Lauer, The Today Show
“The great blue hole is a marine wonder that has been fascinating explorers above and below the sea for years. In 1972 legendary oceanographer Jacques Cousteau brought his, boat the Calypso, into the Hole and his cameras down into its mysterious waters. What they found was a unique underwater cave that plummets four hundred feet into its floor suspended along its walls and huge stalactites and rock formations usually seen only on dry land.”

“After a few short minutes below the surface, I understood why people have been coming here for decades.”

“The Blue Hole is truly extraordinary; it sits in the middle of the longest barrier reef in the western hemisphere. Unfortunately, there is some concern about that reef. A report card came out from a major environmental group just this last Friday that said about ninety percent of this reef is either in poor or fair condition, only a small percent is in good condition. So they are keeping an eye on this because if the reef dies, they lose a lot in terms of tourism dollars, important to their Gross Domestic Product, but if the reef dies, the most important thing is that the ravages of the sea head straight inland with nothing to block them and the low lying areas of Belize and other countries are in deep trouble.”

Matt was joined by Fabien Cousteau, Jacque Cousteau’s son. Today’s report from Belize also featured a story on ecotourism. Matt will be in Belize for another day and a half.

 

- December 2008

 

 
You may be wondering, who’s representing Belize?
Well, there are four athletes competing in the long jump, taekwondo and the two and four hundred hurdles.

The Belize contingent consists of track field athletes Tricia Flores who resides in Belize,
Jonathon Williams who lives in California, Jason Jones who resides in Florida
and Alfonso Martinez who took a break from his studies in Taiwan to represent Belize in the 2008 Olympics.

 

 

 

R.I.P. ANDY PALACIO

visit Andy's web page
read Andy's obituary in the NEW YORK TIMES

 

R.I.P. SIR EDNEY CAIN


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