An archive of a series of stories by Angel Nunez about the history of San Pedro, Belize. The writings reflect the life of a small fishing village filled with actual events, customs and culture, social life, successes, and problems all of which made up San Pedro twenty-five years ago.
Very little has been said about the northernmost tip of Ambergris Caye, the area known as Bacalar Chico. Let me begin by saying that many years back some locals had the misconception that this area was part of Mexico and not part of Belize. You see, this piece of land
By Angel Nuñez The month of November is especially dedicated to our beloved deceased and there are many ceremonial celebrations that go along with that culture brought to The Americas by the Christian Spaniards,
By Angel NuñezAl Felly was no ordinary visitor to San Pedro. He was a professional florist of Madison Wisconsin, and like a regular tourist he loved fishing. However, he fell in love with the
By Angel NuñezAl Felly was no ordinary visitor to San Pedro. He was a professional florist of Madison Wisconsin, and like a regular tourist he loved fishing. However, he fell in love with the
By Angel Nuñez A speed boat is something that today we take for granted. Jump into a small speed boat, perhaps a mahogany skiff and in 20 minutes you are at your dive spot
By Angel NuñezThe other day as I was opening a can of corned beef for a quick lunch, I recollected the times when my brother and I used to fight for the rights to
By Angel Nuñez Can you imagine living in San Pedro today without some basic services? I know, you would die or live complaining every day until you die. Well, it was not so bad,
There are things we take for granted today in the normal and routine life in San Pedro. Therefore I am going to take you back to the 1950’s and 60’s on a few things
By Angel NuñezCircuses are very scarce in coming to town and so it was many years ago in San Pedro but in the 1950’s the village of San Pedro had the distinct pleasure of
By Angel NuñezTONS OF WATERWhile Belize City residents depended on government to give them free water which they got from public pumps on the streets, Sanpedranos of yesteryears enjoyed abundance of free water in
By Angel Nuñez There was a time when only two or three young men or ladies from San Pedro had the fortune to attend high school in Belize City. In the 1960’s I can
By Angel NuñezWhich elementary school in San Pedro did you attend? When I thought for a long time that I attended the first one in the 1950’s, I now learn from a new friend,
By Angel NuñezLast week in our Flashback section we featured a page of a family’s diary which showed the prices of many commodities in San Pedro during the 1940’s and 50’s. This week we
By Angel Nuñez“School days are the best days of your life.” This is what most people say but one does not realize it until he is out of school. Last week I mentioned some
By Angel NuñezSchool is school and you can assume that it is the same everyday and everywhere, but is it? Indeed there are marked differences of school today and Years Ago in San Pedro.
By Angel Nuñez Every skin diver has his breathless moment to remember and recount with fondness. However every one also has his ghastly moment when he could not breathe and remembers it with profound
By Angel NuñezRemember the first article in this series of brave seamen? Well, when Don Francisco “Fashico” Arceo challenged the law officials on their motor boat with his sailing boat and beat them with
