 Mabwega, hello, and welcome to the Belize Pavilion. My name is Nicole Zatina, and I am here to tell you a little bit about my country, starting with the Jankuno. This outfit represents the resistance of slavery and the preservation of culture. It is from the Garinaga culture, one of the indigenous groups in Belize. Moving along, we have the Mayas. So here you see replicas of what were actually found in cave systems in Belize. That is the famous Jade Head. We have the Lamina, which is one of the largest temples in Belize. Here we also have the Mano and Matate. This is where the Mayans make their chocolates or spices. Are you telling me that the Mayans ate chocolate? Well, I don't know if the Mayans ate chocolate, but they are very famous for chocolate making today. So we do have an abundance of cacao in Belize, and they just try to maximize on all of these things that we have, all of the resources. So they make cacao tea. They make chocolates. You have cacao powder and coffee, of course. And selling the cacao to all kinds of, like Switzerland and all kinds of... Yes, so we are exporting cacao itself, cacao bean, and we're exporting chocolates. Here we just have the kids section. We wanted to engage children that visit the pavilion and have them to be a little active, so here they can dance. Different cultural dances of Belize learn how to do the movements, and on the wall we're showcasing paintings from children of ages four to 16. This side, we're talking about investment opportunities from tourism, trade, business process, outsourcing, and so much more. Belize is located in Central America. We are bordered by Mexico to the north, Guatemala to the east, and the Caribbean sea in the west. It's very near Cancun, right? Yes, we are. You can see we're a very tiny country, only a little over 400,000 people, but even so small, we have so many great wonders to offer. We're very well known for a great blue hole. It's actually an underwater cave system, or sinkhole, and there you could go diving or snorkeling, and you see all the beautiful wonders under the sea. We are also very popular and very well known for our coral reef. We have the second largest barrier reef in the world, the first largest living one, however. That is the Mananti. It's an endangered species, and so this is something that we try to preserve in Belize. What do you do to preserve them? I don't know. All kinds of... Yeah, no problem, sorry. Yeah, making sure that they're having... So we do have some barriers set in Belize. So the boats that travel from island to island, they can't cross a certain area, just to ensure that, because the Mananties are roaming freely, so to ensure that you're not actually killing them while driving, you can't enter that area. It's something that if they're trapped as well, we have UNESCO and their team, a research team in Belize to try to rescue them, save them, and things of that sort. So here we're talking about music. Music is something very diverse in Belize. We have different cultures, and each culture has their own music and musical instruments, but it's one of the most lively things about our country and our people. These are drums and the maracas, or what we call it in Belize, the shakas by the Garinago culture. So this is how they create their music. And here, this is just a Mayan drum as well, made from bamboo. So this one is Maya, and then we have the Garinago below. On that wall, we have some of our musical legends. So these people have paved the way for our new and upcoming artists. We have different genres, and these are all indigenous music to Belize. Very unique, very different from any other country. Some of them are actually folklore music, or the songs are more folkloric than what you would normally hear. Some of them actually sing in our dialect, which is Creole. Same Creole as in other places? No, our Creole is very different. It's mostly broken English. So it's not like the Haitians, or it doesn't sound like French. If I would speak to you in Creole, I would say, hello, my name is Nicole, and welcome to the Belize pavilion. Did you understand? Yes, it was very much like English, just a little broken. A little broken, and these are... These are just souvenirs, showcasing different things that we have in Belize. So the Maya temples, we have one of the oldest parishes in Belize, the Mayan calendar, the blue hole. These are our traditional outfits, some of them. So we have the Garinagos, we have the East Indians, the Mayans. Yes, and that is that telling you a little bit about my country. I hope you learned something from me today, and I hope you get to visit Belize. So it says opportunities, Oasis. Yes, so this is telling you a little bit more of our investment opportunities in the country. Belize, like I mentioned, is very well known for tourism, followed by agriculture. We do have an abundance of land in the country, very arable land, so if you do want to do some agricultural businesses, we have great land to invest in. We also promote entrepreneurship, one of our sectors that we're trying to push as well and is very well popular in Belize now is the business process outsourcing. So there are so many investment and trade opportunities in the country. What do you show on these screens during the day, like the world's happening? These are just scenic views of Belize. So the blue hole, you see the Maya temples, you see people, culture, the different ethnicities that we have in Belize, you can see under the sea, just different scenic things that we have in Belize. And some art? Yes, some artwork. Those two are Leela Vernon and Paul Leela Vernon and Wilfred Peters, sorry. Those are two of our musical legends as well. Also on the wall that we talked about before. This is a replica of a paddle because it is said that our beamons, pretty much slaves who came to Belize running away from their slave masters, settled in Belize came on what we call a dory, pretty much a wooden boat and they had to paddle their way to the country. So this is showcasing just that. Here you have our Belizean flag. This is showing what people can find in grocery stores? Yes, grocery stores and we are also exporting some of these products, all made in Belize by natural things sourced in Belize. So the cacao, the honey, the pepper sauces, the juices, all of these things are things that you can find in Belize. The fruit jams, those are from some of our fruits, tropical fruits that you find in country. So we really try to maximize on everything that we have in the country. How about the food bowl team? We do have football. It's one of the largest sport that we play in the country but it's not as popular as other countries. So we do have some soccer. We have cricket, basketball, volleyball. We're trying to put those on the map. People do enjoy the sport. We do play the sport and so it's something that we're trying to export as well. Other than, I know we talked about music. You usually hear when you think about exporting you hear products. Let's export products. We also want to export services, people. So music is something we're trying to push. Sports is something that we can also export as well. We have so many things to offer in Belize, so many fun things, so many great investment opportunities, amazing people, a diverse group of people. Everyone gets along. We're very friendly people. So I do hope if you come to Belize you see this side of us. And the economy is growing, so the opportunities are growing. The economy is growing. Our currency is very strong. It's two Belize dollars to one US, so that's a plus. It doubles and it's very steady. It's fixed. It's fixed. Yes. You follow the dollar. Yes, we do. You follow whatever the dollar does, just two. I know. No, no, no, no, sorry. No, it's fixed. So it's two Belize dollars, one US and it has been stable for years. All right. And the tourism industry is growing? The tourism industry is growing. It's one of, it's our number one industry in Belize. We do rely heavily on tourism followed by agriculture. How's the SIM card connection speed? People come and they want to have good internet in the whole country. That is something that is growing as well. We have two companies in Belize, very small countries. So we only have two companies that offer internet system. It's pretty good. It's pretty stable. I'm not gonna say that we don't have problems. We do, but it is growing.