New Year’s fireworks fizzle with spectators

If
you and your family flocked to the Memorial Park on New Year’s Eve expecting
a fireworks extravaganza on the order of Sydney, Paris or Times Square,
you were no doubt disappointed. And the fact is that even if you were
not expecting a world class event, you still may have felt a bit let down.
Today we asked Hilly Martinez of Belize Brewing Company why there were
such long gaps of silence between explosions.

Hilly Martinez, General Manager, Belize Brewing Co.

“We felt that we were doing it as fast as possible. One of the reasons why there’re delays, intervals actually, is that each time you shoot them out, you have to clean out the mortars and re-load it. And although we had people doing it throughout, there’s, sometimes you have little problems, with papers staying in there and you have to take it out cause it’s dangerous. But we felt we did it as fast as we possibly could have. You will find that in other areas, the fireworks will go off faster and it’s non-stop because it’s done electronically; we do it manually.

Personal opinion, I think it went excellent. In our situation, it’s hard for us to really see it because we’re immediately below it so we don’t see too much of the fireworks but what we did see, we enjoyed.”

Martinez says there were over three hundred fireworks ignited Friday night. The show was sponsored by the Bowen and Bowen group of companies in collaboration with the Belize City Council and Love FM. Bowen and Bowen has been involved with firework shows since 1981.