Ambergris Today Daily Blog:
Letty does her thing at the Miss World Talent CompetitionLetty is asking everybody to vote for her in the latest poll at the World of Miss website.VOTE NOW (the voting poll is on the right hand side of the main page)More pictures of Letty, Miss World Belize, at the Miss World Sports competition. (Read More)
Western Belize Happenings!:
** Ms Gegg. The Gegg family go back several generations and are renowned as business entrepreneurs. Ms Gegg right now in her life is a painter type artist.** Eat your heart out! This is Ms. Gegg in the age bracket at the prime of her life. She is a natural blond and one of her parents was from Denmark. The Mennonites, (Read More)
Holy Cross Anglican School:
Dear Friends, I just wanted to share some 'Happy Halloween' photos from the school FUNdraising Fair held this past Friday. The kids had a wonderful day and the school raised $1,608.50US for the Feeding Program - that's a ton of quarters!! Many thanks to the teachers, parents and to local businesses who made generous donatio (Read More)
Western Belize Happenings!:
Chit Chat from subscriber members on the Belize Culture Listserve, with about 150 people from all around the world. Some Belizeans, others just curious. The listserve is Bz-culture@psg.com To join, you need to send an email that says bz-culture-request@psg.com and put the word SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. A l (Read More)
Holy Cross Anglican School:
Dear Friends of Holy Cross, Please take a few minutes to read the following email from long time Holy Cross supporter, Jean Willard. Jean and her husband John along with many friends from St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Durham, NC have brought numerous mission teams to the school. Jean is doing a fund raiser for the schoo (Read More)
Ambergris Today Daily Blog:
There is no doubt that San Pedro has produced some of the finest Belizean beauties at the local, national and international levels. Take a look at our present Miss San Pedro, Raquel Badillo. She is adorable, and coincidentally she is the niece of Martha Badillo featured in this flashback as Miss World Belize. She i (Read More)
Moonracerfarm Belize:
Our last guests – and newest new friends, to continue the theme from my last couple of posts – were Scott and Elizabeth from Tennessee. They are spending two weeks in Belize, and when they started planning their trip last winter, they decided to spend their first two nights with us.Although they were only here for two nigh (Read More)
The Tranquilo Traveler:
Today is the anniversary of my first day ever in Belize, 6 years ago, when I woke up on Garifuna Settlement Day in Belize City. Here is a fantastic piece by Susanne Hackett for National Geographic: Happy Garifuna Settlement Day!She writes, “While in Belize for Garifuna Settlement Day last year I had the opportunity to sit d (Read More)
Ambergris Today Daily Blog:
Happy Garifuna Settlement Day!The Garifuna Council of San Pedro reenact the arrival of the Garinagu to Belize shores on Garifuna Settlement Day, November 19, 2009. Early dawn they arrive on boat at the Municipal Pier on Central Park and march to Church to celebrate mass and give thanks.Mr. Garifuna, Dion Samuels is in the mix. (Read More)
Western Belize Happenings!:
** Western Belize has a lot of cattle ranches. This is the cattle judging at the National Agriculture Fair, held at the show grounds in the capital Belmopan of the Cayo District.** Blue Creek annual rodeo** Blue Creek rodeo, up in the Mennonite North country.National Agriculture Fair held at Belmopan Fair Grounds ( the cap (Read More)
Exploring Belize Continues:
Cosmic Monster, by Maya PapovicA few blogs back, we told you we were working on our business - Conch Creative. If you have been following this blog, you know we've accomplished so much since we've been in Belize. Aside from learning to live in a completely different country, overcome the inevitable culture shock, building (Read More)
The San Pedro Sun & Visitor's Guide:
A man was rushed to the San Pedro Poly Clinic after he fell off a building. The incident occurred at about 3:30 PM some 10 miles north of San Pedro Town. According to Police, the man, 33 year old Jorge Omin Trigeros was on a building at Bright Water Condos when he accidentally fell off.According to medical officers at the S (Read More)