Belize Rural High celebrates 20th birthday

It’s an educational institution that we rarely see on the news, but Belize Rural High School, based in the Village of Double Head Cabbage, has reason to celebrate. In this case, the occasion is its twentieth birthday. New principal, Juan Gongora, told News 5 about the school’s first relathon and related activities to be held on Saturday.

Juan Gongora, Principal, Belize Rural High

“Our school will be commemorating twenty years of existence. On that day we will be having a relathon beginning at seven o’clock from the Burrell Boom cut off, all the way to way to our school campus in Double Head Cabbage. The boys will be running from the Boom cut off, the girls will be running approximately from Burrell Boom Village. They are expected to arrive at about an hour and a half to two hours. Immediately after that we will have our barbecue sale, which will run till about twelve o’clock, one o’clock, and in the afternoon we will be having our school fair from four all the way till about nine, ten. At nine o’clock we will be having our dance and that will finish about one o’clock or two o’clock. I would like to take this opportunity to invite all the nine different communities in the River Valley, beginning from Burrell Boom all the way to Rancho Dolores.”

The communities served by Belize Rural High, in addition to Boom, Double Head, and Rancho, include Flowers Bank, Scotland Half Moon, Bermudian Landing, Isabella Bank, Lemonal, Willows Bank and St. Paul’s Bank.