Flashbacks

Gone are the good old days when children living on the beach used to sit on the sand in their own yards and enjoy the cool of the afternoon under a coconut tree. Sometimes

GONE are those good old days when there were sandy streets all over San Pedro, like on back street and sand on Middle Street as seen in this Flashback. The sand has been replaced

Can you even imagine the town of San Pedro only needing one police officer to keep the peace? Well at one point in the islands history, when San Pedro was just a sleeping fishing

Everything, absolutely everything was low key in San Pedro during the days of this Flashback.  The political banner was one out of about ten (only) that was hung in San Pedro at the time. By the

How did we ever manage without a bridge over Boca del Rio!? Remember when there was only this tiny floating platform that used to barge people back and forth from North Ambergris Caye? It

It is not among the first hotels but certainly among the early hotels on Ambergris Caye. Sands Hotel was built by the owner himself, George Parham, a member of the very influential family, the Parham’s.

Back in 1975 when the San Pedro Lions Club was chartered, one of its first big projects was to build a clinic and equip it with a resident doctor and registered nurse. Three years later this

A Quaint Fishing Village, Paradise, Isla Bonita, Belize’s No. One Tourist Destination- these are some of the descriptive words that have been used to describe Ambergris Caye and San Pedro.  The peacefulness of the

At the right of this Flashback Picture is the towering first three story hotel on the Island, Sea Breeze Hotel belonging to the late Seferino Paz Sr. Directly in front is the Ambergris Lodge

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