Fonseca takes top poetry prize
The September Celebrations Committee held its annual poetry competition at Gwen Lizarraga, Wednesday night. The fifteen finalists recited poems under the theme Many Origins, One Home Belize. The principal of Gwen Lizarraga read “The Ties That Binds Us” which was written by the guest of honor, Doctor Corinth Morter Lewis. The thousand dollar first prize went to Carol Fonseca for “Mahogany Inscription; A Common Heritage”. Second prize went to Rhondean Reneau for “Many Origins, One Home Belize,” while third prize went to Safiyyah Muhammad for “Our Belizean Glory.”
