Burgers Up! At Saga Cook Off
Ten dollars got you a whole lot of burgers, nine to be exact, at Saga’s November Burger Cook Off that took place last night, Wednesday, November 16, 2011. The event went down at the Wahoo’s Lounge located on the beach at the Spindrift Hotel. Well, they were not entire burgers, but samplers or sliders as […]
Abandoned and Shot Now Loved and Protected
Press Release – 16th November 2011 – There is no doubt that Si was probably a very cute puppy. It’s easy to imagine a child playing with him and enjoying the wonderful bond that develops between puppies and children. What is not so easy to imagine is how such a sweet pot licker grew up, […]
1st Ever HIV/AIDS Charity Dinner/Auction
Crave Restaurant will be hosting the “1st Annual Dinner & Charity Auction for the San Pedro AIDS Commission” on World AIDS Day Thursday, December 1, 2011. The San Pedro AIDS Commission and Crave are putting together a fantastic evening for you with delicious food, fabulous company, a fun auction and raffle, to raise funds and awareness […]
Belize Tops Nat Geo’s Top 10 Sacred Caves List
We are very pleased to see that Belize’s Actun Tunichil Muknal is on the top of the list of National Geographic’s Top 10 Sacred Caves. The list is published in the National Geographic book Sacred Places of a Lifetime. This inspirational book showcases 500 of the world’s most powerful and spiritual places—and guides modern-day travelers […]
Bridge Closing & Sports Notices
Bridge Closed to Vehicular Traffic (Update Nov. 21) Press Release – San Pedro Town Council – November 21st, 2011 – The general public is advised that after studying all options available, they have no other choice but to close the bridge to VEHICULAR TRAFFIC (including golf carts) immediately. This is necessary to complete the street […]
Priceless Silverware Stolen from House of Culture
A number of priceless antiquities have been stolen from the National Collection at the Belize City House of Culture. Several pieces of silverware which date back as far as the 1800’s when Queen Victoria and King George reigned over the United Kingdom were stolen from unlocked display cases at the House of Culture. A total […]
Old Timer or Modern Sanpedrano? #11
By Angel Nuñez YOU KNOW YOU ARE AN OLD TIMER SANPEDRANO IFYou had a Garifuna (Carib) as a teacher during your primary school days. Everyone remembers their Garifuna teachers because they were good teachers and strict disciplinarians. As disciplinarians they resorted to the whip to impart order, respect and good behavior. I remember my last […]
Las Terrazas Named Belize's Leading Resort at World Travel Awards
Las Terrazas Resort & Residences announced that they have been named Belize’s Leading Resort at the 2011 World Travel Awards. More than 5,000 companies, destinations and organizations are nominated for these prestigious annual awards, voted on by more than 213,000 industry professionals worldwide. The World Travel Awards were started in 1994 to encourage the international […]
Do We Care?
On the corner of Pescador Drive and Ambergris Street, a building construction which uses virtually all of the lot space leaving none for parking, is underway. I hear that it will be the offices of a Credit Union. On the corner of Barrier Reef Drive and Black Coral Street across from Coral Beach Hotel, the […]
Classroom Management
Classroom management is not easy. How do you “manage” 32 or more different and restless teenagers in the same room every day, with each one displaying various levels of strengths and/or weaknesses in different subjects? Each teacher has no more than 45 minutes at a time to “manage” all of them, and bring out the […]
Healthier Smiles for School Children
San Pedro’s residents are known to be friendly and always sharing a smile with others; one thing for sure is that those smiles are the healthiest smiles in the entire country of Belize. Island residents are blessed to have great healthy smiles thanks to all the volunteer dentists groups that make a huge effort to […]
San Pedro Tops National Optimist Regatta
Like leafcutter ants busy on a tree limb, the Optimist dinghies sailed across the sea in front of Caribbean Villas during the Belize National Optimist Championship Regatta that took place in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize on November 12, 2011. The most impressive thing was that the skippers were children between the ages of 8 […]
Travel Trade Experts participate in BTB Forum
Belize City, Belize – November 14, 2011 – On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, the Belize Tourism Board, in collaboration with its Travel Trade Agency of Record, JG Blackbook of Travel, conducted a focus group workshop with over 60 local hoteliers and tour operators on How to Reach the US Travel Trade Market. The Travel Trade […]
Three Hour Coffee Break with Mary
Meeting Mary Bartnikowski was like a breath of fresh air. She called me to meet for coffee at Café Cubano last week. She was told that I was the person to meet in San Pedro. (Thanks to a few great friends who had so much good things to say about me; you know who you […]
Ceni 's Quinceaños
San Pedro is known for fiestas and Quinceaños are no exception. On Saturday, November 12, 2011 Ceni Grace celebrated her “Peacock” themed Quinceaños with her friends and family at the Lion’s Den. Congratulations and Happy Birthday to Ceni and wishing you many more. Aim for the stars!
San Pedro – Orange Walk Flights by Tropic Air
– Press Release, Tropic Air, Monday, November 14, 2011 – Tropic Air announced today that it will be inaugurating twice daily non-stop service between San Pedro and the Orange Walk Town’s Tower Hill Airstrip, on December 15th, 2011. With the launching of this service and the opening of its new station there, Tropic Air will […]
Beach Wedding at Xanadu Resort
At any given time San Pedro is buzzing with activity. Take Saturday, November 12, 2011, for instance – a sailing regatta, pastry shop inauguration, 15 años party, calendar launch party and a beach wedding! And we bet there was much more going on. It was a cloudy day, but that did not prevent anything from […]
Caribeña Fuels Robbed at Gunpoint
An employee at the Caribeña Fuels Gas Station was robbed at gunpoint on Friday, November 11, 2011. No one was injured and the assailant got away with a bag of money. According San Pedro Police, a gas station attendant at Caribeña Fuels Gas Station, located on the corner of Blake Street and Sea Grape Drive, […]
Tour Operator Boat Destroyed by Fire
Ambergris Today was first at the scene of the incident that occurred at about 5p.m. on Sunday, November 13, 2011, in front of the Victoria House Resort. Boat Captain Neftali Lemus of tour operator Ecologic Divers had just dropped of one of his tourist student divers at the pier off Victoria House when one of […]
Congrats Stephanie Beltran
Ambergris Today joins friends and relatives of Stephanie Beltran to congratulate her on her educational accomplishment. Stephanie has earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Education with emphasis in management. She is now a proud Licenciada. Stephanie is a graduate of San Pedro High School and left for Costa Rica four years ago to attend […]
The Center of San Pedro 1973
This is how the village of San Pedro looked back in 1973. The main pier and wharf, located in front of Daddy’s, was a wooden pier not suitable for vehicles. But of course, there were no need for the few land rovers to go up the pier. It was only used to unload fruits from […]
Holy Cross Holds Health Fair
Holy Cross Anglican School held a Health Fair on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at the School Compound. The Health Fair consisted of minor skin surgeries, dental check up (by the Belize Mission Project), check up on minor medical ailments, diabateses testing and blood pressure testing, among others. It was a fun and educational event for […]
Playboy Playmates at Play in Belize
“Playboy Playmates Lauren Anderson and Jaime Edmondson are best friends and thrill junkies—the perfect pair for us to send to Belize for the experience of a lifetime. And the Central American gem’s perfect blend of virgin rain forest, picturesque rivers, enormous caves and Mayan mysteries did not disappoint.” This was posted yesterday, November 10, 2011, […]
Saga Burger Cook-Off
SPHS Students Receive Scholarships
The Belize Mission Project (BMP) has been helping brighten smiles in the community of San Pedro for the past 18 years. They have made trips to Belize once a year working, not only in San Pedro, but in other parts of the country as well. This year BMP will be made two visits; the first […]