Ambergris Today Meets Belize’s Road Warrior
Belize’s newest and second Road Warrior Lebawit “Lily” Girma has been blogging away about her experiences and trips all over the country. Her latest stop is our beautiful Isla Bonita, San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. Lily’s mission – to capture the cultural explosion at the Costa Maya Festival and we noticed her every night at the […]
SP Library Invites to Buccaneers and Bones Showing
JOIN US for FREE to see fellow San Pedranos star in the “Buccaneers and Bones” seriesFriday, August 26th at 6:30pm at the San Pedro Library. Lots to eat and drink!! Good prices.
Volunteer Fire Fighters Urgently Needed
The Belize National Fire Service is accepting dedicated persons to join the Voluntary element, ages 17 years and up. Fire Fighting is one of the world’s most honored but hazardous occupations. The job is not comfortable or easy; it is a profession that exposes an individual to high level of stress and danger. Fire Fightining […]
Hol Chan Tags & Releases First Olive Ridley Turtle in Belize
Amazing Turtle Rescue and Release in San Pedro – A few months ago an Olive Ridley Turtle (also commonly known as the Pacific Ridley Turtle) was rescued at the Hol Chan Marine Reserve and has been rehabilitated at the Bacalar Chico National Reserve. The staff at Hol Chan aptly named the turtle “Olive” and she […]
Costa Maya Rivals Easter Weekend in San Pedro
If you were home locked up for the weekend and not enjoying the Costa Maya Festival in San Pedro you did not see the herds of people, I mean thousands, who invaded the Island just because of the lure of the festival. I believe that Costa Maya weekend was as good, or even better (more […]
Modeling Lessons by Miss Costa Maya
Newly crowned Miss Costa Maya 2011, Miss Mexico Valentina Cervera Avila is a professional model and career woman whose business involves training future models so that they are ready to develop their careers. Having winning the Costa Maya crown, Valentina wanted to give back to the community that she has already fallen in love with. […]
Love Them Marquesitas!
Delicious goodness on a Crispy wafer stick! Mmm, Mmm, Good! In think that Ambergris Today will be opening a side business of Marquesitas! Yes, really; they are that delicious and the Mexican vendor who came to sell them JUST for the Costa Maya weekend made a killing with them at $5Bze a piece. They were […]
Miss San Pedro Set for September 3, 2011
Five beautiful young ladies have taken on the challenge to participate in this year’s Miss San Pedro Pageant; they are Josie Lopez, Trisha Acosta, Yakarelis Hernandez, Christine Syme and Joey Eiley. These lovely contestants have begun training and had their official photo shoot at Captain Morgan’s Resort on North Ambergris Caye – photos were […]
Costa Maya Pageant Winner Awarded Movie Role
Miss Mexico Valentina Cervera Avila won the hearts of the judges and walked away with the grand title of Reina de La Costa Maya 2011. Not only did she take the crown and other fabulous prizes, but she was offered a movie role by president and founder of breakthoroughstar.com. “At Breakthrough Star we are convinced […]
Think To Feel Good
By Christopher Emmanuel How thoughts affect your mood Do thoughts drive emotions, or emotions drive thoughts? If you don’t have the answer to this question, contemplate this notion: according to Darwinian theory of evolution, one of the major reasons we evolved is because we had the capacity to delay our instincts. If we feel hungry […]
Costa Maya Pageant Co-Host -Mauricio Islas
Mauricio Islas was one of the first co-hosts for the Miss Costa Maya International Pageant. He shared the stage with local hostess Wilema Alamilla at the time when he was very popular in the T.V. series Mil por Hora. Today television viewers can still see Mauricio Islas as he is acting in the telenovela Cielo […]
OH My Stars! Marisela is a Hit at Costa Maya
Singing sensation Marisela coined a new acronym in San Pedro. OMS – Oh My Stars! Now everybody is texting OMS instead of OMG as Marisela put on one of the best performances in Costa Maya Festival history. La Dama de Hierro can sing and perform for her audience, singing for two and a half hours […]
Chaa Creek’s Eco Kids Scholarship Camp 2011
The morning of Sunday, July 31, began a little before seven as 24 sleepy headed eco-campers rallied to the 6:30 a.m. wakeup call and gathered round the fire hearth to commence their daybreak muster of liven up songs before breakfast. A very special day was dawning when the last day of camp awakened to the […]
Fires Are No Joke… But This One Was!
By Angel Nuñez We all know that fires are no joke, but the very first fire that I can remember in the 1950’s is remembered by a lot of folks as a big joke. In those days there were no movies in San Pedro but occasionally the Government Information Service of Belize used to travel […]
Miss Mexico is New Costa Maya Queen
Mexico knows how to pick them and knows to send their top beauty queens to San Pedro for the Reina de la Costa Maya Pageant. Valentina Cervera Avila was crowned the new Miss Costa Maya last night, Friday, August 5, 2011, during the 16th edition of the pageant, held at the International Costa Maya Festival, […]
S&P Downgrades Belize On New Stake In Distressed Utility
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services downgraded Belize’s currency ratings a notch deeper into junk territory after the heavily indebted country acquired a large stake in its distressed utility company. A growing number of Belize’s public-sector companies have exposed contingent liabilities in recent months, putting more pressure on the country’s balance sheet. The Belizean government in […]
Costa Maya Festival 2011 Opens with a Bang!
Dance to the rhythm of the Brukdown! And that is what the San Pedro International Costa Maya Festival is all about – Celebrating the cultural heritage that brings us together as one. Beautiful and magnificent dances and presentations ignited the stage and kicked off the 20th Anniversary of the Festival with the vivid celebration of […]
Unibam’s Response To Attacks From The Church
Belize’s democracy is young and holds much promise. Democracies are not static; ideally, they evolve as generations change and citizens become more enlightened and empowered to join in the public forum of ideas which eventually fosters a more equitable, just society. At times, however, certain socio-political forces impede a democracy’s natural evolution towards a necessary […]
Looking Out for our Belizean Sharks
Award-winning documentary for the Belize Shark Project “Where have our sharks gone?” won the Best Environmental Film Award at the 6th Edition of the Belize International Film Festival this past month. The main thrust of the film is to show the dire situation of sharks throughout the world and Belize and how this is affecting […]
Mayor Paz Hosts Costa Maya Delegates
The International Costa Maya Festival begins today, Thursday, August 4, and the Costa Maya Delegates have been enjoying every minute of their stay at La Isla Bonita. On Wednesday, August 3, Mayor Elsa Paz hosted the Costa Maya delegates for dinner at Caliente Restaurant. Mrs. Celi Paz Gonzalez, Ambassador of El Salvador to Belize also […]
Radiothon for Fire Victims
Fundraising efforts for the fire victims of the Airstrip Area begun since Monday of this week and the outpour of assistance has been great from the entire community of San Pedro. Today a Radiothon and Dollar Drive outside the office of the Reef Radio is taking place. Tons of pledges have already been called in […]
Another Naca Arrives in Town
Mexican comedian/entertainer Lorena de la Garza “Nacasia” arrived today, August 3, 2011, onboard Tropic Air as she will be one of the entertainers who will open the Costa Maya Festival tomorrow Thursday, August 4. Much laughter is indeed coming our way as Lorena had Ambergris Today laughing as soon as she got off the airplane. […]
Pageant Ladies Fascinated with Island Hospitality
One thing that is for sure is that the delegates for the Costa Maya Pageant have a fantastic time in Belize for one complete week before pageant night. They have nothing but great things to say about their experiences and about the friendliness and warmth of our country’s people. From the minute that they all […]
Historic Debate on Belize's 9th Amendment
The ninth Amendment to the Constitution of Belize has been proposed at the National Assembly in Belmopan and has been the biggest “talk of the town” everywhere in Belize. The problem is that is filled with sophisticated language terminology and legal jargon. All of this gobbledygook has gotten the ordinary Belizean confused. So is this […]
SACNW Continues Working Strong
The South Ambergris Caye Neighborhood Watch (SACNW) held its August general meeting on Sunday, July 31, 2011. at the Caribe Island Resort. The business at hand was nominations and elections of the new Executive Committee for 2011 – 2012. The new board members are: President – Flor Nunez, VP – Terry Colbert, Treasurer – Dee […]