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unusual facts about Government House, Belize



Australia Act 1986

Then, visiting Australia, at a ceremony held in Government House, Canberra, on 2 March 1986 the Queen signed a proclamation that the Australia Act (Cth) would come into force at 5 am Greenwich Mean Time on the following day.

Battle of St. George's Caye

In 1783, hostilities were brought to an end by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which allowed the Baymen rights between the Belize and Hondo rivers; this was extended with the 1786 Convention of London to the Sibun River.

Beka Lamb

It won the Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1983 and was one of the first novels from Belize to gain international recognition.

Belize National Youth Chess Foundation

Building on the founding by Mr. Robert Landolfi and Mr. Glen Reneau of the first school chess club at Hummingird Elementary and the Belize Association of Chess Players in Belize City, due to the efforts of the B.N.Y.C.F. there are now teams ranging from the most southern villages in Toledo District to the most northern villages along the Belize-Mexico border in the Corozal District.

Belizean

Belizean people, people originating in Belize whether they live there or in the Belizean diaspora

Big Creek, Belize

Big Creek is a deep-water port on the Caribbean Sea in Belize's Toledo District (just south of the boundary with Stann Creek District), constructed in the 1990s.

Blue Ventures

Blue Ventures also carries out community education and outreach activities in Sarteneja, Corozal District, the largest fishing village in Belize.

Campbell, Australian Capital Territory

Many buildings built by Robert Campbell and his family are still standing around Canberra, including Blundell's Cottage, St John the Baptist Church, Reid, Duntroon House (now part of RMC Duntroon) and Yarralumla House (now Government House).

Chan Chich Airstrip

It is the only reasonable means of access to the luxury eco-lodge created by Sir Barry Bowen in his private game park deep in the Belize rainforest, adjacent to the Rio Bravo Conservation area.

Coccoloba diversifolia

Coccoloba diversifolia, commonly known as pigeonplum, doveplum, pigeon Seagrape or tietongue, is a species of the genus Coccoloba native to coastal areas of the Caribbean, Central America (Belize, Guatemala), southern Mexico, southern Florida (coastal regions from Cape Canaveral to the Florida Keys) and The Bahamas.

Craugastor sandersoni

It is found in Belize and eastern Guatemala, in the Maya Mountains, Sierra de Santa Cruz, Sierra del Mico and the eastern part of the Sierra de las Minas.

Diamonds International

Diamonds International was founded in 1986 on the island of St Thomas and currently operates 129 stores in Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cabo San Lucas, Cancun, Costa Maya, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Juneau, Ketchikan, Key West, Mazatlán, Playa Del Carmen, Puerto Vallarta, San Jose Del Cabo, Skagway, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, St. Thomas and Turks & Caicos.

Dry stone

In Belize, the Mayan ruins at Lubaantun illustrate use of dry stone construction in architecture of the 8th and 9th century AD.

Edwin Miranda

He received his first cap on January 24, 2009 in a UNCAF Nations Cup match against Belize when he came on as a late sub for Salvador Coreas.

El Salvador national cricket team

The second Easter Cup in December that year was hosted by El Salvador and saw Belize, Mexico and Costa Rica also take part.

Flag of the Governor-General of New Zealand

The flag is flown at places the Governor-General occupies or resides such as Governor-General's residence, Parliament of New Zealand while attending Executive Council meetings and on official vehicles.

Football Federation of Belize

On 15 June 2011, Belize kicked-off the Road to Brazil (2014 FIFA World Cup qualification) against minnows Montserrat, winning 2-5 away in a match played in the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, Trinidad.

Fort Amsterdam

The fort was torn down in 1790 and the Government House, intended as the presidential residence, was built on the site.

Geography of Belize

Belize is party to the Basel Convention, Convention on Biological Diversity, Ramsar Convention, CITES, Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, Montreal Protocol, MARPOL 73/78, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

George Enrique Herbert

Jorge Manuel Torres Teyer and Victor Manuel Adan Carrasco, leaders of the Juarez Cartel in Belize and the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, with whom Herbert conspired, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court in 2003, and were sentenced in May 2004.

Goldson

Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport (IATA: BZE, ICAO: MZBZ), an airport that serves Belize City

Government House, Barbados

Government House was once a Quaker Plantation, until it was purchased by the Imperial Government, when it acted as a replacement to The Bagatelle Great House in the Parish of St. Thomas.

Government House, Brisbane

Government House Open Day, when it is open to the general public, is held each year, usually on Australia Day, 26 January and Queensland Day, 6 June.

Government House, or 'Fernberg', is located in the Brisbane suburb of Paddington, in Queensland, Australia.

Griga United

Griga United is a Belizean football team based in Dangriga in Belize.

HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean

Currently, there are five countries where the national prevalence is over 2 percent, those being the Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Huerteales

Petenaeaceae consists of a singe genus and species Petenaea cordata from Southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.

John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven

In May 1927 he formally opened the first meeting of the Australian Parliament in the newly built Parliament House in Canberra, and the Governor-General was at last given a permanent residence, Government House, Canberra, commonly known by the previous name of the house, Yarralumla.

King William Street, Adelaide

The northern section called King William Road (connecting the Adelaide city centre with North Adelaide) passes several of Adelaide's landmarks, including Government House, Elder Park, the Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Oval and St Peter's Cathedral.

KREM New Years' Day Cycling Classic

It is considered the second most prestigious race in Belize after the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic.

Krem Television

The feud over the license dragged on for months; established media houses claimed Krem chairman Evan X Hyde was trying to corner the media market in Belize.

Maya codices

The oldest Maya codices known have been found by archaeologists as mortuary offerings with burials in excavations in Uaxactun, Guaytán in San Agustín Acasaguastlán, and Nebaj in El Quiché, Guatemala, at Altun Ha in Belize and at Copán in Honduras.

Medical University of the Americas – Belize

Medical University of the Americas – Belize (MUA-B) was a medical school located in San Pedro Town, Belize from 2001 to 2007.

Naming of military air bases

Other bases were named after the local village, or used the name of the building in which they resided, such as RAF Bentley Priory, or country (e.g. RAF Belize).

People's United Party

One month earlier the colonial government dissolved the PUP-dominated Belize City Council for neglecting to place a portrait of King George VI in its chambers, and in October jailed PUP leaders Richardson and Phillip Goldson for an article in a local newspaper justifying revolution.

Perenco

It has exploration and production activities in 16 countries across the globe (the North Sea, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Belize, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Vietnam).

Placencia Assassins

Placencia Assassins Football Club are a football team based in Placencia, Belize.

Politics of Belize

The party system is dominated by the center-left People's United Party and the center-right United Democratic Party, although there have been other small parties that have participated at all levels of governmental elections in the past.

Pre–University of Belize tertiary-level institutions

In 1981, Belize became embroiled in the dispute over the Heads of Agreement, and in late March when riots began in the streets of Belize City, Technical students led by Socorro Bobadilla were right in the middle of it.

Ralph Fonseca

Fonseca on his return to Belize after university acted as assistant general manager of Texaco oil company in Belize.

Roderick Alleyn

Like his younger brother, Sir George entered the Foreign Service: Death in a White Tie implies that Sir George is the Governor of Fiji in the late 1930s, as he writes to Alleyn from Government House in Suva.

San Felipe Football Field

San Felipe Football Field is a football stadium based in San Felipe, Orange Walk District, Belize.

Serpon Sugar Mill

After the American Civil War in 1865, American immigrants from the southern United States invested heavily in sugar plantations and small sugar mills throughout southern Belize.

Stann Creek Ecumenical Junior College

Stann Creek Ecumenical Junior College is a college in Dangriga, Belize.

The National Perspective

The National Perspective is one of Belize's five national newspapers, and the only one not to operate from Belize City, having its headquarters in Belmopan.

Tipu

Tipu, Belize, a Mayan archaeological site near the Belize–Guatemala border

Uxmal

It is considered one of the most important archaeological sites of Maya culture, along with Chichen Itza in Mexico; Caracol and Xunantunich in Belize, and Tikal in Guatemala.

Yolanda Schakron

The following week, it came to light that Schakron was a dual citizen of Belize and the United States citizen when a photocopy of a United States passport issued to her in 2002 was published in the media.


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