Distribution locations for Ticket Sales 2008
Island Magic, Ilna Nunez 602-2308
Wally’s Electric, Leni Nunez 226-2408
Post Office, Angel 226-2250
Fantasy Gardens
Emerita Munoz 226-2085
Danny Boy
Footprints 226-2689
La Divina Providencia, Suzanne 226-4205
Caye Supplies 226-4660
*La Reina De La Costa Maya (Thursday)
Adults: $25.00BZD Children: $15.00BZD
*Opening Gala / Mega Concert (Friday)
Adults: $25.00BZD Children: $15.00BZD
*Noche Internacional (Saturday)
Adults: $75.00BZD Children: $25.00BZD
*A Night for the Family (Sunday)
Adults: $25.00BZD Children: $15.00BZD
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Adults: $100.00BZDChildren: $45.00BZD
Passing by on Barrier Reef Drive, we could notice that renovations are taking place at the San Pedro Roman Catholic Church. Windows are being repaired and more glass block are being added to let more natural light into the church.
Gaby Hicks scores the winning goal
Just confirmed to perform at the La Reina de la Costa Maya Internacional Pageant 2008 is Melonie Gillett of Burrell Boom, Belize. She willperform her new release "Rush".
From a baby screaming the second she came out her mother’s womb, to a woman finally achieving her dream of inspiring, captivating and charming the hearts of people all over the world through music, Melonie Gillett, born August 23, 1984, has risen from the beautiful country of Belize. She has taken her diverse heritage and compiled it with modern day R&B, Reggae, Dancehall and Alternative music to create her album entitled Melonie Gillett “Finding me”.
Back Street improvements
Due to the heavy traffic that the island now faces, the San Pedro Town Council has decided to upgrade Nurse Street (lagoon-side street) to allow vehicular traffic access to this street. The exact location is the street at the back of Mr. Miguel Alamilla’s Boatyard going north to the junction of Caribeña Street. Through this medium, the Council is requesting the residents of this vicinity to alleviate this area from any obstacle (approximately 20’ clearance) so as to allow for the steady flow of traffic. The Council appreciates everyone’s cooperation in this matter.
Cemetery Committee to be formed
Mayor Elsa Paz and the San Pedro Town Council will soon embark in the beautification of the San Pedro Cemetery. The Council welcomes the suggestions and ideas of the general public and as such is inviting interested parties to form part of the San Pedro Cemetery Committee. Once a group of persons sign in, a committee will be formed and the process will begin. Interested persons please call Mr. Felix Ayuso at telephone 226-2198/2788/2936 or 624-9379.
Reports coming from Channel 5 Newscast in Belize City is that the U.S. Embassy in Belize has issued a travel advisory to its citizens cautioning travel to Belize and encouraging them to register at the nearest diplomatic mission and to be vigilant to ensure their personal safety.
But contrary to this report, Hon. Manuel Heredia Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation, called in the Good Morning San
This mistake could have adverse affects on tourism arrivals as there should have been no release of a travel advisory. Hon. Heredia commented that he will work on retracting that advisory that leaked to the public and has made its way to US media.
Maybe the only mistake that we did was not being 100% clear of the intention of the article. But in the past Ambergris Today has, by published countless articles and pictures in regards to the dangers of feeding the crocodiles and warned people about doing so.
We agree that the manner in which the intended message was delivered was not the most appropriate one and the pictures should not have been taken, but we had tried time and again to warn the people about the dangers involved and no one listened, until now! This was probably the only way that we could think about to get people’s attention and wanted to make the proper authorities see the picture and do something that was safe for all. Our intention was to expose these dangers so that the town could build a safe facility for tourists to view the animals in their environment without any interference.
For the past three years, ever since the crocodile killed a dog at the WASA Pond, we have been preaching that something must be done to protect people from a possible vicious attack by one of these beasts. Then a group of young men started feeding the animals just to catch a view and have fun. Later on they started feeding them as a tourist attraction to collect some tips. And all this time nothing has been done. Now the focus has shifted from protecting people to protecting the animals because they are a protected species. But still nothing has been done until recently the town council hinted that it is planning to convert the place into an adequate and safe park as a tourist attraction. But everyday the feeding activity continues and nothing concrete happens.
To get attention for positive action on that matter, the author of Where’s Debbie Today got permission from the Deputy Mayor to report on what’s happening there to create public awareness. Debbie risked her personal safety to do this investigative report and does not deserve to be called: Dumb, Idiot, Fool, Local Sanpedrana, and Single mother. (By the way when is being a single mother and being a local something degrading?) Unfortunately a few people have misinterpreted the issue and resorted to insulting and abusive even threatening remarks at Debbie and our newspaper. We regret to see that a small group of people misunderstood our article, but nevertheless we are happy that it is MISSION ACCOMPLISHED on the matter for now much attention is being given to it and we will finally have a plan of action for the spot.
We talked to the Town Council to either stop it or create a safer environment to feed these animals, because we could see so many tourists going there and endangering themselves. We admit that we did not make this point strong enough, but surely we have in the past, with no avail. Because weather or not we agree to it, the feedings are still going on. I have never gone to feed these animals and we probably should not have taken those pictures (I agree to that), but it seems that it was the only way that I could draw attention to the matter. I agree that feeding these animals is dangerous and should not be done. BUT IT IS BEING DONE! And I wanted to do just that, have the proper authorities create a safer environment.
I was surprised to see the negativity coming from some people to the extent of some people insulting our reporter and condemning our newspaper. We were trying to do something positive for the town and we hope that with this we have taken the first step in making it better.
1st. Arvid Arnold/Germane Audinett
2nd. Tico Requena/Miguel Neil
3rd. Raul Arnold/Ernest Broaster
