The name of British Honduras was changed in 1973 to Belize and later gained
independence from Great Britain in September, 1981 (ChaaCreek, 2012; The World Bank –
Belize, 2012). The country of Belize is quite small, ranging 22,963 square kilometers and
appears the size of the, State of Connecticut in the United States of America. Over one-hundred
small islands, known as, ‘Cayes’, set off Belize among many obscure places in the world
(ChaaCreek, 2012).