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The theme for this year’s September Celebrations has been chosen by the National Celebrations Commission.  

At the end of May, Commission opened the Competition and “theme playersâ€￾ had 21 days to come up with 10 words to commemorate the 221st Anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye and the 38th Anniversary of Belize’s Independence.

For one thousand dollars, there were about a thousand entries and the winner was announced today.  But, sneaking up as stealthily as those slaves with Pocono bwai sticks - the NICH crew surprised the winner fo the competition today

But, this year it was unveiled in a different way.  NICH went to Orange Walk to surprise the winner. They told Eloy Escalante Sr that he was among the finalists and then they sprung it on him - here’s how it went:..

As we told you, he got a thousand dollars for his wining entry.