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San Pedro Lions Club Feeds 300 Community Workers

In honor of National Service Day, Saturday, September 13, 2025, the San Pedro Lions Club extended a beautiful gesture of appreciation by serving BBQ meals to nearly 300 of our community’s frontline workers. This heartfelt act reached our Polyclinic staff, firefighters, police officers, traffic wardens, and the hardworking sanitary crew

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$10K for San Pedrito Park

Children are the future of tomorrow and what better way to bring up our children than providing them with much love and affection, a proper education and in a safe environment. But children will

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SPJC Turtle Rescue

Among the many animals of our country that are now considered “Endangered Species” is the loggerhead turtle commonly known as The Sea Turtle. And among the many marine animals like the bonefish, permit, tarpon

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Overall Tourism Arrivals for 2005 Increases

The year 2005 has proven similarly successful for arrivals predominantly through two ports of entry, being the Philip Goldson International Airport and the border points. Tourist arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport (PGIA)

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Second Street Sweeper Donated!

Two weeks ago at the Angel Coral Street inauguration Mayor Elsa Paz officially presented the long awaited street sweeper for the island which was obtained through the Sister-City agreement with Wilmington, North Carolina. Today,

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Losing Central Park Beach

Much attention is being given to the brick streets, the new street sweeper and the garbage collection, but one problem that we see has gotten way out of hand is the traffic on the

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The Myths of the Crystal Skull

The blockbuster movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that was released last week in theatres has stirred up some attention to Belize and the famous Crystal Skull from Lubantuun. Now

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Isla Bonita at Band Fest

The Isla Bonita Marching Band represented San Pedro at Band Fest 2009 in San Ignacio this past Saturday, April 4. Although the band was small compared to the 13 other bands that were participating,

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Shipwreck Discovered on North Ambergris Caye

In the days when pirates existed and many sailors were exploring the new world, many of those ships were either caught in bad weather and wrecked or possible pirate invasions of other ships caused

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March for the Reef

GIVE FISH A CHANCE – A peaceful yet very powerful march brought out hundreds to deliver a strong message in favor of protecting our environment and against some development projects that are not sustainable

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New Building Project Raises Eyebrows

Projects like Reef Village and especially South Beach Belize have created quite a stir in the island and now another development project is raising eyebrows and red flags – Venecia Del Mar. The project

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Luxuy Yacht Damages famous dive site

Just last week representatives of UNESCO were in the country conducting a survey on the World Heritage Site as Belize could lose its world heritage status for not taking care of its Great Barrier

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Rosita Baltazar Awarded

Ms. Rosita Baltazar received the Chatoyer Recognition Award for the Promotion of Garifuna Culture from the National Garifuna Council on Saturday, March 7, 2009. The award recognizes her work teaching dance to young people

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