Shipyard is a village in the Orange Walk District of Belize. In the 2000 census, Shipyard had a population of 2,385 people. Most of the population are Mennonite. Most residents of Shipyard speak Low German. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Orange Walk District is a district in the north west of the nation of Belize, with its district capital in Orange Walk Town. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist (Re-baptizers) denominations named after and influenced by the teachings and tradition of Menno Simons (1496-1561). ... Low German (also called Plattdeutsch, Plattdüütsch or Low Saxon) is a name for the regional language varieties of the Low Germanic languages spoken mainly in northern Germany, southern Denmark and eastern Netherlands. ...
Belize, formerly known as British Honduras, is a small nation on the eastern coast of Central America on the Caribbean Sea bordered by Mexico to the northwest and Guatemala to the west and south.
Belize is a parliamentary democracy and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Belize is located between the Hondo and Sarstoon Rivers, with the Belize River flowing down in the centre of the country.
Belize, a multi-ethnic state with eight ethno-cultural communities, was more ethnically diverse than all of the Caribbean countries including Guyana, Trinidad and Suriname, and had a special appeal to me since it seemed to have been able to contain the rival claims of ethnic communities so as to produce a harmonious whole.
Belize was the only English-speaking country in Central America, due to the fact that it was a British colony and has consequently inherited a large number of British institutions.
Politically, Belize is a parliamentary democracy in which regular elections have held without interruption since it received self-government from Britain and is marked by a free mass media in newspapers, radio, and television exercised openly by citizens without fear.
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