Haile Selassie I’s 132nd Earth Day Celebration at Birds Isle

On Saturday, Enoch Ethiopian International is hosting a Haile Selassie I One Hundred and Thirty-Second Earth Day Celebration at the Birds Isle. This event will mark nineteen years of celebrating Haile Selassie I’s earth day in Belize. It promises to be a time loaded with entertainment and food. Ras Reuben, a member of the Rastafarian community in Belize, stopped in at our studio to tell us more.

 

Ras Reuben, Member, Rastafarian Community

“This event is an annual event. We have been hosting it for nineteen years, since 2005 I have been on the forefront being in charge of hosting it in Belize City. It is an annual event that we try to get the awareness of the community of what Rastafari means to the community. This year we have Mile 41 Band, Kenny Gladden and the New Creation Band, and we also have a couple other artist, Ras Melanin, Ras Sherman and we two big DJs, Tony G and Fada Mose wah the spin pan the wheels ah steels. This is not as you would say exclusive to Rastafari small community. This is for the wider community and that is why we try to put together a show that has multiple kinds of personalities so that people could fins something to attract them. We also have food, my food will be there, Vegan Bites will be there. We have food from other people, for people that do eat meat and other stuff. So, a wide variety of entertainment for the people deh. That is the idea to come, commune, unite with a cooler, calmer, positive vibration. The idea is for us to find ways to interact with each other and learn at the same time, spreading the energy and the vibes of the music.”