And while Belize is 40 years old - it's also been 223 years since the Battle of St. George's Caye - and for more than a century Belizeans have been commemorating the tenth.

In the middle of the last century that started meaning festive parades - but tomorrow there - will be none - the streets will be bare so for nostalgia we look back at a few years ago:

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