I.S.C.R. holds first lecture

The Institute of Social and Cultural Research invites the public to the first in a series of lectures this Thursday evening. News 5 spoke with I.S.C.R.’s Froyla Salam about the topic, which is both historical and timely.

Froyla Salam, Institute for Social and Cultural Research

“As in the case of the subject of our first lecture series, it is about the Mayan land security tenure issue. On hand we are going to have someone who is quite involved with the whole thing from the beginning, Gregory Ch’oc, he is the president of the Q’eqchi Council. He will give us what has happened from 2000 to present. On hand as well is Dr. Joseph Palacio, and he will give us an overview, put the Mayan land issue into historical context, both at the national and regional level because the indigenous land rights issue is something going on all around the world. And so it’s something that Belizeans have to have more information about and have better informed opinion of the subject.”

The lecture on Maya Land Security will be held on Thursday, January twenty-ninth at six p.m. at the House of Culture on Regent Street. The second lecture is scheduled for sometime in March and will be on the film industry in Belize. A new exhibition will also be opening at the House of Culture next month on the Haitian Revolution.