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Mullins River is the name of both a river and of a village on that river in the Stann Creek District of Belize.
Holy Redeemer Primary School is a Catholic, parish primary school located in the heart of Belize City, Belize.
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Travellers Liquors Limited is a distiller based in Belize. The company produces a variety of different liquors, specializing in aged rum.
Holy Redeemer Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Belize City, Belize. It is canonically the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan. It shares the role with Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral in Belmopan, though the Bishop's offices remain at Holy Redeemer. Pope John Paul II made the first Papal visit to Belize and visited the cathedral in 1983.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the city of Belmopan, Belize. It serves as a co-cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan with the Holy Redeemer Cathedral in Belize City. In 2009 a secular missionary priest from the United States, attached to the church, was embroiled in a sex scandal when he was sued by a man who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by him in the United States in the 1990s.
The National Heritage Library (NHL) is a library in Belmopan, Belize. Located on Mountain View Boulevard, adjacent to the Museum of Archeology. It contains an extensive non-circulating collection of materials about Belize and Belizeans with some 20,000 materials in the collection. It also has much archive material including housing development plans, maps, private industry annual reports, and past and current national and local newspapers including the Amandala, Belize Reporter and the Belize Billboard. It also has a collection of digitized books and over 1500 videos of local news broadcasts and documentaries.
The Belize City Swing Bridge is a swing bridge located in downtown Belize City, Belize. It connects the north side of Belize City with the south side and spans Haulover Creek, a tributary of the Belize River.
The Bliss Institute is a theatre, museum, and National Arts Council in the cultural centre of Belize City. It is named after Baron Bliss.
St. Viator Vocational High School is a Roman Catholic High School managed by St. Francis Xavier Parish in the Corozal District of Belize. It is located 1.5 miles beyond Chunox on the Chunox Sarteneja road.
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When the Holy Redeemer Catholic parish was founded in 1852, it was the only parish in Belize and from it missionaries covered the whole country. When other parishes were founded Holy Redeemer remained a parish with its own history but with its leadership connected to the Catholic church in all of Belize under titles of governance that evolved over the years from apostolic prefect to apostolic vicar to bishop. It has remained the hub of the diocese, the bishop's church, as well as a parish in its own right.
Unitedville village is a village located Cayo District, Belize. Unitedville is home to 974 persons with the main ethnic groups being Creoles the most numerous and seconded by the Mestizos. The main livelihood activity in this community is traditionally subsistence farming. Residents produce much of their own food, such as corn, ground food, beans, some rice, various tropical fruits, chickens and small livestock. Surplus production was sold. All members of the family generally participate in this activity. Thus, the families develop strong, united relationships. Unitedville is closer to San Ignacio, as opposed to Belmopan, and as such the villagers shop and recreate in that town rather than in the capital. Villagers of Unitedville relate to Belmopan mainly for administrative services. Recently, there is an increasing trend in the number of younger members of the village engaged in the fields of construction and the public service.
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