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To – David
Lucy Lopez, Belizean in US Army, tells of Iraq war ?You don?t know if you?ll live to see tomorrow.?
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Aug. 3, 2004
Former Belize Defence Force Soldier, Lucy Areina Lopez, 26, returned to her hometown of Punta Gorda on Monday, August 2, after being stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, for a year with the United States Army.
Lopez enlisted in the Belize Defence Force in 1996, but three years later, in 1999, she went to the US to visit family. In 2001, she enlisted in the US Army.
Queen?s Square Market booms, but overspills
BELIZE CITY, Tues. July 27, 2004
The buzz of the Queen?s Square marketplace signals for some prosperity, but for others it gestures marginalization and economic depression. Many of the vendors who set up their stalls inside and around the new Queen?s Square Market, along the Collet Canal, will tell you it?s all about survival?about making ends meet. As the market place grows; however, they have to find new ways to keep with the game.
Traditionally, the Queen?s Square Market was intended as a fruit and vegetable market. However, you can find everything from books, stationery, shoes, candy, restaurant food, medication, hammocks, shoe polish, and even a Mexican product called ?Ven Dinero Ven? (Spanish for ?Come money, come?), which is supposed to be used to bathe away bad luck and bring good fortune for $20 a bottle.
Prominent Belizean artists create Association for Belizean Artists First
BELIZE CITY, Wed. July 21, 2004
Twenty-three of Belize?s most prominent artists, including painter Terryl Godoy and musician Brother David Obi, have banded together to form the Association for Belizean Artists First?an incorporated entity that seeks ?to promote and preserve Belizean arts and culture.?
According to the association?s public relations officer, Tony Wright, the idea to form the association came because of the annual Sound Fest, which a group of Belizean musicians have been hosting since 2002.
Personality of the Week
(Reprint)
She walked away from this year?s Festival of Arts with the title of ?Most Promising Drama Student.? While our society continues to suffer the loss of so many young girls, 6 having been murdered in the past year, Courtney Gillett is a good example of why we as a community should stand up and address the crimes to which our young girls tend to fall victims.
