Safiyyah has the rundown of weekend activities

If you are a jazz aficionado, there is an upcoming event this weekend that you just can’t miss, particularly since the proceeds will go to help persons afflicted with HIV/AIDS. And there is much, much more happening around Belize, Saffiyah has details.

Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize.

Well you’ve heard me talk about it before, but it’s finally here. This Saturday is the lighted boat parade held in San Pedro. We spoke to one of the coordinators and she told us this…

Jan Brown, Coordinator, Lighted Boat Parade
“I’m here to invite everybody to come over and join us for our third annual San Pedro Holiday Boat Parade. We are in our third year of having the lighted boats go up and down the shore line starting at seven o’clock in the evening and this will usher in our holiday season. And the boat parade is on December sixth. That will be on a Saturday night this year.”

“We have cash prizes to share. That will be for boast of all different sizes; sailboats, catamarans, power boats, we even have one for man power if we can have somebody in the parade with lights that will have a kayak or a canoe. So you have the option of being able to win. There’ll be prizes for the best overall, the best religion, and we even have one for try harder next year for someone who doesn’t have quite enough lights but they’ll do it again next year. We have an exciting new division this year for our schools and it’s called the junior division. They will compete just for the trophies and the prize money for their. So it’s a very exciting time. When the parade is over people will be invited to Central Park, we will have a Disc Jockey, we will have the award ceremony, our alliance club is having a fund raiser that evening by sponsoring a cash bar and we will have cheerful setting, we’ve got food all over and it’s going to be a glorious event.”

So everyone is invited out to San Pedro to enjoy the lighted boat parade this Saturday night. There will also be a lighted boat parade coming up in Dangriga on the twenty-first of December. I’ll give you more details about that later.

In Belize City at the House of Culture this Saturday night, there will be a Bruk Dong competition and bram. The cost to enter is ten dollars to enter for adults and five dollars for children. The fun will start at six p.m. It’s a fun event that will really be celebrating Belizean culture, so take out the family and check it out.

The Living with Hope Foundation would like to invite everyone out to their Jazz Dinner and Dance being held on Saturday night at old Belize. The dinner will begin at seven-thirty p.m. and will feature music from Belizean jazz musicians. It’s for a good cause so you should go out and support it. Also on Saturday the Holy Redeemer Christmas Bazaar will be held starting at four p.m. If you’re interested they will be selling turkey dinner and barbecue from earlier in the day around lunch time. At the bazaar itself, there will be lots of food and drinks on sale as well as games, music and even a Santa for the kids.

During the day on Saturday, integrity radio will be having their third annual sports fest at the birds Isle. The games will begin at ten a.m. and continue on until six p.m. There will be volleyball and basketball competitions between churches. Everyone is invited to come out and enjoy the games.

Now let’s check out something sweet that I promised u last week…

Armeda Cutkelvin, Event & Catering Mgr., Smokey Mermaid
“I would like to welcome all to the Smokey Mermaid. My name is Armeda Cutkelvin, I’m the Events and Catering Manager here at the Smokey Mermaid. This April we celebrated our ten year anniversary. We have provided food both for visitors and Belizeans alike.”

Safiyyah Mohammed
“So what are your opening hours?”

Armeda Cutkelvin
“We open from six in the morning until ten, eleven in the night; it all depends on the customers.”

Safiyyah Mohammed
“So if I want to come get some food at three o’clock can I come in?”

Armeda Cutkelvin
“Three o’clock in the afternoon? Yeah you can have breakfast, kunch or dinner anytime.”

Safiyyah Mohammed
“Alright, and what kind of food do you serve here?”

Armeda Cutkelvin
“We serve local and international cuisine. Everything we use here is fresh. For our Belizean customers, we have a special Christmas menu for them, affordable Christmas menu. They can just call me and I can fax it over to them or email the menu to them or come in to our restaurant and have a look at the menu.”

Safiyyah Mohammed
“I hear you guys have excellent deserts here. Can you give me an example of the kind of deserts you guys serve?”

Armeda Cutkelvin
“Okay, sure. The number one seller here at the Smokey Mermaid is the banana chimichanga; that is number one. We have the decadent ecstasy and the key lime pie. You should try.”

Safiyyah Mohammed
“Alright I will.”

[Tasting Key Lime Pie..]

“Wow, it’s really good. It’s creamy, it’s not too sweet, it really just melts in your mouth. I’m gonna try the next desert.”

[Tasting Banana Chimichanga…]

“I always love desert that you can taste the banana, you can taste the fruit. It’s really, really good. Everything compliments each other really nice. Alright let’s try the next one.”

[Tasting Decadent Ecstasy…]

“Anyone who loves chocolate would definitely love this. It’s really gonna be hard for me to pick one today, which one I love the most. The coconut and the chocolate, they work perfect together and what I love about it, it’s not too sweet. It’s really good.”

“Alright you have any final word for us here?”

Armeda Cutkelvin
“I’d like to thank you all for coming here to the Smokey Mermaid and trying our desert. I hope you liked it. I’d like to invite all Belizeans to come on down and try our many dishes that we have here at the Smokey Mermaid.”

Safiyyah Mohammed
“Alright well thank you too for having us. Guys, I gotta tell you the deserts were off the chain. They were awesome, they were so, so delicious. I loved all of them; I couldn’t pick a favourite. I said I would, but they’re all really good. And the food here at the Smokey Mermaid is excellent. So you guys come and check out the Smokey Mermaid. All Belizeans come out. Guys, signing out, bye.”

That’s all for now. Have a great weekend! Bye!

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