The Twenty-first Annual CXC National Awards Ceremony was held today at the Stann Creek Ecumenical College Auditorium in Dangriga. Scores of families of exceptional students from all over the country headed south for the event which was designed to pay tribute to the bets, the brightest and the youngest. Education Minister Patrick Faber welcomed the students:

Nisa Sánchez attended Edward P. Yorke High School.

The Belize Open scholarship is valued at two hundred thousand dollars.