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Primary Schools Garifuna Translation Contest 2024

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The 15th Annual Battle of the Drums Primary Schools Garifuna Translation Contest was held on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at Punta Gorda Sporting Auditorium in Punta Gorda Town, Belize.

This contest tests the participants’ ability to translate words, phrases, sentences, and proverbs from standard English to Garifuna.

In this Contest, each school is represented by 2 students. Ten primary schools participated in 2024. The participating schools were as follows: St. Joseph R.C. School from Barranco Village; P.G. Methodist School, St. Peter Claver R.C. School, St. Benedict RC School and Bethel Seventh Day Adventist School from Punta Gorda Town; St. Alphonsus RC School from Seine Bight Village; Richard Quinn Primary School from Georgetown Village; Holy Family RC School from Hopkins Village and Sacred Heart Primary School and Gulisi Community Primary School from Dangriga Town. This year’s contest was extremely competitive, with a 3-way tie for second place and a two-way tie for third place.

2024 Primary School Garifuna Translation Contest Winners winners were as follows:

School Participants Names Score
Gulisi Community Primary School An’J Nunez 1st Place
St. Benedict R.C. School Osmir Reyes 2nd Place
Richard Quinn R.C. School Zinaye Arzu 2nd Place
Holy Family R. C. School Mikylah Nunez 2nd Place
Gulisi Community Primary School Arrianna Ariola 3rd Place
Bethel Seventh Day Adventist Elijah Petillo 3rd Place

 

The prizes awarded are as follows:

Prizes for Participants:                    

1st Prize                        1 Mini Laptop and 1 bicycle

2nd Prize                       1 Tablet and $100.00 Savings Account

3rd Prize                       1 Tablet and $75.00 Savings Account

4th Prize                       1 Tablet and a $50.00 Savings Account

5th Prize                       1 Tablet and a $25.00 Savings account

Consolation Prizes      $50.00 Savings account

Celia Martinez Award**        Celia Martinez Plaque

Prizes for Participating Schools:

  1. $25.00 for each participant that the school provides for the contest
  2. $100.00 to the school of the 1st place winner
  3. $75.00 to the school of the 2nd place winner
  4. $50.00 to the school of the 3rd place winner

We are thankful to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology for providing one bus to each school to attend the event and to the following persons for providing the Laptops, tablets, and bicycles for the prizes: Dean Pollard, Raju’s Variety Store, Herman Flores, Sandra Flores, Richard Cacho, and Garreth Herbie Clarke.

First-place winners of the Primary Schools’ Garifuna Translation Contest for past years are as follows:

Year Name of Student School Municipality
2011 John Rodriguez St. Joseph R.C. Primary School Barranco Village
2012 Val Alvarez St. Joseph R.C. Primary School Barranco Village
2013 Eliciey Ramirez Richard Quinn Primary School Georgetown Village
2014 Mario Mejia Punta Gorda Methodist School Punta Gorda Town
2015 Natasha Bennett St. Alphonsus R.C. Primary School Seine Bight Village
2016 Khadasia Castillo Holy Family R.C. Primary School Hopkins Village
2017 Jonathan Moreira St. Peter Claver School Punta Gorda Town
2018 Wasani Rodriguez St. Joseph R.C. Primary School Barranco Village
2019 Tiana Arzu St. Benedict R.C. Primary School Punta Gorda Town
2022 Christon Miranda Holy Family R.C. Primary School Hopkins Village
2023 Clavia Nuñez Holy Family R.C. Primary School Hopkins Village
2024 An’J Nuñez Gulisi Community Primary School Dangriga Town

 

This contest is an initiative under the Battle of the Drums Garifuna Language retrieval strategic objective, and it is also an initiative under our Garifuna Language in Schools program led by the Battle of the Drums and the National Garifuna Council.

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