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Personality of the Week – Double Feature

Peer pressure is often used in a negative way to lower young people’s self esteem and lead them to their own demise, but two young ladies of Cayo, both in their twenties, are using peer pressure positively, to improve the situation of young people in their communities and to help them make better choices in life. Doris Dougal, 27, and Gloria Avila, 21, are doing an exceptional job of focusing their time and efforts to inspire positive change. Both young women are international business students at the Sacred Heart Junior College in San Ignacio, Cayo.

Personality of the Week – Sebastian Cayetano

Garifuna Settlement Day celebrations are gearing up to a climax on November 19th, and so in the spirit of the celebrations we pay tribute to a man who has helped to keep the Garifuna tradition alive across Belize.

Garifuna Cultural Explosion 2006

The National Garifuna Council (NGC) selected Old Belize as their platform to showcase the best of the Garifuna culture on Saturday, November 11. This fundraiser was the first annual Garifuna Cultural Explosion 2006. Patrons were honored with exposure to the Garifuna way of life, which was inclusive of their music, dance, food, clothing, and implements. The Garifuna Trust Fund would benefit from the proceeds.

Lascelle Arnold, Part II

Three issues ago, this column featured Belizean entrepreneur, Lascelle Arnold. All the happenings in one?s life can never be told in this column, but we feel a part II is necessary here to convey some of the fascinating details not covered in our October 11 article. In this edition we tell you of Lascelle's stint in a Mexican prison, his experience with a major earthquake, his visit to Honduras after Mitch, and the real estate business, which has bolstered his success in the world of business.

Personality of the Week – Walter Goff

Gales Point Manatee, Belize District, is home to one of the most vibrant African populations of Belize—full of the sounds of the Sambai and the drums that transfuse the souls of villagers with a strong sense of self. But even there, elders sit with a sense of nostalgia for the Belize that existed in the early days.

Personality of the Week – Lascelle Arnold

Lascelle Arnold is one of Belize's most savvy entrepreneurs. His life story is an unusual tale of a Mullins River boy who did not do so well in primary school, but who, nonetheless, turned his life into a remarkable success story through a spirit of innovation and dedication. Lascelle lived in the coastal village of Mullins River, Stann Creek, until he was about four or five years old. He moved with his parents, Gilbert and Valerie Arnold, to Belize City, where he was raised on Dean Street, his residence until he was 21 years old.

Personality of the Week – Shiffana Flowers

Shiffana Flowers grew up as many other young girls in post-Independent Belize City, one of a handful of siblings reared in a female-headed household. For her, life was normal. Happy. But things changed drastically on her 12thbirthday in 2002 when she was suddenly confronted with the death of her mother, Dorla Flowers, who succumbed to cancer. On top of this painful tragedy, Shiffana was facing all the confusion that puberty brings upon a girl?s life. She was also going through her final days of primary school and preparing to enter the much more challenging world of high school, where peer pressure was bound to compound her unstoppable metamorphosis.

Personality of the Week – Gina Lovell

Two-time Female Cross Country Champion and Belize Defence Force Officer Cadet, Gina Lovell, 23, is setting a remarkable pace for herself. It's not merely the pace she's setting on the asphalt-covered roads of Belize, but on the rocky roads of life.

Personality of the Week – Glenda Arthurs Ferguson

She's a mother of two young ladies and the proprietor of a Belizean restaurant in the heart of Belize City's north side commercial wing. Glenda Arthurs Ferguson has been operating K&M Plaza Place at the corner of Baymen Avenue and Kelly Street for the past 10 years. Her menu is comprised of Belizean cuisine from rice and beans with a variety of meats to cow foot soup, but you never know what the day's "special" is going to be. That's mostly where she gets to apply her creativity and passion for what she does, where she gets to express her fundamental outlook on life.

Personality of the Week – Shane Vasquez

King of the Hills brings home the garland - For four years, he has captured the title, "the King of the Hills," in Belize, and on Saturday, April 15, Shane Vasquez captured for himself yet another coveted title, 2006 Cross Country Champion. The country had been thirsting for someone to bring home the garland. Shane became the first Belizean in five years to win the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic - the biggest cycling race on the national calendar

Personality of the Week – Carrie Fairweather

?Not one child in this country should be left behind?and especially with oil. We don?t even have half a million people. It?s disgraceful.?

She has come to earn the nickname of ?Granny? after her stellar appearance in Belize?s first television dramatic series, No Matta Wat. But who is the lady Carrie Fairweather? In this week?s edition of Personality of the Week, Amandala chats with her to gain more insight into the real-life character that plays a strong material figure, Granny Tomasa, on your televisions screen. What we found out is that she is not so much different from the one that was scripted into the series.

 

Personality of the Week LADY D

Oftentimes, media personnel tell the stories of others, disclosing very little about themselves. Breaking that trend, Personality of the Week this time features KREM FM announcer and news anchor, Deseree Cain, also known as ?Lady D.?

Simon Quan ? Personality of the Week

Simon Quan is a popular Chinese businessman who has made a name for himself in Belize. Many remember him as the Oriental man who used to ride around with goods on a black delivery bike, carrying them from his stores to his clients.

He migrated here the year before Hurricane Hattie, in 1960, after his cousin, Augusto Quan, invited him to work for him. He felt that outside of Hong Kong he could find fortune, having heard of many others who had left and prospered.

Personality of the Week Robert Anderson

Former police bandmaster still willing to teach...

?This individual served as a policeman for years in Belize, but heis also a great musician. He trained many brass instrument players, and was the Director of Music of the Police Band, a band employed on a full time basis in Belize.

?Formalmusical trainingis only for the richin Belize, the state ignores the need for a Military or Police Band, but we had it before and we should pay tribute to men like Mr. Anderson.?

Kevin Campbell, musician

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