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 YOU KNOW YOU ARE AN OLD TIMER SANPEDRANO IFWhen you got home for lunch during the week and you did not get a piece of pig tail in your beans, you
By Angel Nuñez YOU KNOW YOU ARE AN OLD TIMER SANPEDRANOSome of us like the traditions and the mentality of the past while others prefer the fast and easy way of modern times. I
By Angel NuñezThe San Pedro Annual Lagoon Reef Eco Challenge is just over and in the midst of its exciting finale, I couldn’t help reminisce on several challenges we had twenty five years ago.
By Angel NuñezIt has been a pleasant task reminiscing on the VERY FIRST ONES in San Pedro, like the first airstrip and the first plane as well as the first doctors or even the
By Angel Nuñez I have read Danny Vasquez’s book, The Little World of Danny Vasquez, three times and every time I do, I enjoy it with a different perspective. This particular topic on prostitution
By Angel NuñezIn last week’s issue of Twenty Five Years Ago about the first families of Ambergris Caye, I tried to include as many names which I compiled from my readings of Danny Vasquez’s
By Angel Nuñez I still have about ten volumes to write about the very first ones in San Pedro, but will deviate for this week due to a request to write about this store
By Angel Nuñez As I move along with my list of ‘Firsts in San Pedro’, I am discovering some new ones like the first wedding on the beach (actually on a pier in front
By Angel Nuñez Being first is quite a fete. It is nice to know that you were first in your class, first to set a record like the High School boys did this year
By Angel Nuñez Being first is quite a fete. It is nice to know that you were first in your class, first to set a record like Eric Donis is attempting to do, first
By Angel Nuñez Twenty NINE years ago there was no Town Board OR Town Council in San Pedro. In fact, the town board is a new baby, only in existence since 1984. In the
By Angel Nuñez The people who founded San Pedro in 1848, Mestizos for the most part, lived on this island quite unaware of British rule for just over 100 years up to about 1950.
By Angel Nuñez Carnival has been celebrated since the 1930’s in the humble village of San Pedro and the idea has always been the same – to continue the festive spirit that Don Juan
By Angel Nuñez A review of the history of immigration to San Pedro shows the Mayas setting foot here around 1000 to 1200 followed by the small immigration of the Mestizos in 1848 when
By Angel Nuñez By now you are realizing that San Pedro is a product of immigrants. We have traced all the way to 1200 to the days of the Mayas and then to 1848
By Angel Nuñez The Mestizo settlers in Corozal District from 1846 to 1858 grew from 4500 inhabitants to 8000. On the other hand the Mestizo settlers to Ambergris Caye were some 30 houses with
