Flashbacks

You night have imagined that these kids are in detention serving time for some misconduct at school.  Former Principal of San Pedro High School played no jokes with unruly students and raking streets was

One of the landmarks of San Pedro is the Roman Catholic Elementary School. From the beach in front of Central Park to the temporary building of the Catholic Church to its present location, the primary

There was a time when the entire beachfront of Ambergris Caye looked like virgin land. Such was the case with this parcel of land immediately south of the San Pedro Roman Catholic School. However one of the

Village life is happy life – that is happy in a different sense. It is simple, yet it is beautiful. There is less, yet there is more. In village life there is life indoors

There are several things that are quite different from this Flashback of San Pedro to our San Pedro of today.  For one thing, you do not see small residential homes in the downtown; you

While it can safely be said that Celi McCorkle is the Tourism Pioneer in the hotel industry of San Pedro, Alan Forman is the Tourism Pioneer in the scuba diving operations on the island.

This past week on October 25, the San Pedro Lions Club celebrated its 40th anniversary. Among the many celebrated achievements was its first large project- the Lions Clinic. The idea was the brainchild of

The proprietor of this humble house is Mr. Andrew Bradley, a quiet and reserved but very happy man. He lived a small part of his life in neighboring X’calak, Mexico. In the late 1950’s

What was this car doing right in the middle of the street between Friendship Park and Blake House? (now Heritage Bank) Obviously there is very little traffic or the car would have been towed

The small and quaint Belize International Airport served the country up until the 1990’s, before becoming the much larger and well-known Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport of today. It was a small but

San Pedranos vividly and with nostalgia remember the Belize City swing bridge. They used to cross underneath it with small skiffs and used to patiently wait for six in the morning to pass and

This gentleman driving the golf cart in San Pedro has a strange name indeed.  Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld (born December 28, 1940), better known by his stage name, Don Francisco, is a Chilean television

Today there are over one hundred Justices of the Peace in San Pedro. Not so in this flashback which goes back to the 1980’s just after township of San Pedro. In this flashback for

Perhaps a lot of you do not know that one of San Pedro’s first and talented artists is Dimas Guerrero Sr.  As a young fisherman in San Pedro, Dimas used his free time to

As we enter the season of the festivities connected with the anniversaries of The Battle of St. George’s Caye and Independence it is apt to look at some of the past queens who reigned

Now that you see this flashback do you wonder why in the world this large group of San Pedranos is so well dressed?  The men were all wearing shoes which is not normal under