Caye Caulker Lobster Fest back on track

The Caye Caulker Lobster Festival should was scheduled for last weekend. But Tropical Storm Alex changed those plans and the festivities had to be postponed on the day the crustacean should have been cooking on grills.  The rains might have put a damper on the island but the chairman of the Caye Caulker Lobster Festival, Porfelio Guzman, said that the event will make its comeback very soon.

Via Phone: Porfelio Guzman, Chairman, Caye Caulker Lobster Fest

“On Saturday we were trying to have the opening but we were monitoring the weather through the internet and everything. And I was getting calls up to about three, four o’clock the morning asking me if there was still going to be a lobster fest because I don’t know which radio station was saying that Caye Caulker Lobster Fest was cancelled. I said I don’t know how comes it’s gonna be cancelled because no word has come to me yet. I told my members lets hold on and wait. So on Saturday morning, which was the twenty-sixth, at six in the morning I went on the internet and we were watching that the weather was right over us Belize. Right away I told them lets cancel this for a later date. We called the radio station right away and they put it over the air and so comes we cancelled it. Two, three days ago we sat down and decided on another date and we decided to put it on the tenth and eleventh of July.”

Jose Sanchez

“What should we expect on this new date on site, sounds and aromas?”

Via Phone: Porfelio Guzman

“On this new date I think hopefully that we’re going to have better weather and I just hope that I get all my Belizean people to go out and support our lobster fest because our lobster fest that we have been doing for the last sixteen years, we have already successful a lot because whatever we do we return it back into the community.”

Because the fest is a popular yearly event, people who are interested in attending should start to book rooms at the island’s hotels.