Price Family Home to Become Centre for Public Education 

The National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) is set to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Price Family. This is to ensure the preservation and transformation of the Price Family Home at #3 Pickstock Street, Belize City. A release from NICH says, “This site, where George Price—Father of the Belizean Nation—grew up, is recognised for its immense national value and will be repurposed for public benefit.”

NICH’s vision is to develop the house and its grounds into an engaging educational space. Planned features include a state-of-the-art classroom and lecture hall, designed to support learning in history and culture, and a botanical and sculpture garden in the spacious yard, promoting both biodiversity and the arts.

According to NICH, the development will take place in consultation with the Price family and subject matter experts, ensuring that the site remains an inclusive, non-partisan space open to all Belizeans and international visitors alike.

Materials on Belize’s path to independence and the legacy of George Price will be available via Access501, a new educational portal that has already drawn over 7,000 visitors since its launch.

According to NICH, a specially crafted marble plaque will be unveiled, bearing the inscription “Price Family Home/Birthplace of George Price/Father of the Belizean Nation.” The multilingual plaque, with translations in English, Kriol, Spanish, Garifuna, and Maya, will also pay tribute to George Price’s parents, Irene Cecilia Escalante Price and William Cadle Price, as well as his siblings Lydia, Jane, Alice Margaret, Ann, Josephine, Samuel, Elizabeth, Katharine, Judith, and John.