New Horizon's Graduates

New Horizon's Seventh Day Adventist School held its graduation ceremony yesterday, June 25, at the school compound. Javier Williams was the valedictorian in the graduating class of 21 students.

New Entertainment for Costa Maya Fest

Abner Babil
Abner David Murillo, better known as Abner Babil, has had a passion for music for as long as he can remember. He started writing songs and rapping at the age of 12 and at the age of 13, he performed on stage for the first time.
With a Hip Hop origin, a strong Reggaeton influence and living in the Caribbean growing up listening to Dancehall, his style and music are very versatile, hence the name of his upcoming Album "Versatile". Versatile will include songs such as "Like Damn"(mix of Reggaeton, Hip- Hop, Dancehall), "Versatile" (Hip-Hop/Rap), "Que Lindo Es Saber" (Reggaeton, Ballad), "No lo hagas" ft Supa Pro & The Messenjah (Reggaeton, Hip- Hop, RnB), "So hot" ft 8 Stizzle (Dancehall, Reggaeton) "Tu eres" ft Mc loco" (Romantic Reggaeton) "I wanna be" (Inspirational Hip Hop w/ Chorus sung by Kids Choir).
With a combination of styles like these Abner Babil is truly a “Versatile” and rising artist in Belize. His album is expected to be complete by the end of summer 2009. The Costa Maya Festival will be one of his first major platforms in promoting his music. Visit www.myspace.com/abnerbabil to listen to his music.


Mario MejiaMario Mejia is set to perform on Friday, August 7, 2009 at the Costa Maya Festival. He is from Guatemala, but has traveled the world in search for making it big in the world of entertainment. He already has an album under his belt and is seeing his career climbing steadily.
He started taking singing lessons at the age of seven and at 15 years old he was composing his own music. He studied in Europe and once he moved to Miami, Florida, he saw his career start taking flight. After recording his album titled Mario Mejia, he has performed in many venues around the United States, Puerto Rico and is very popular in his home country of Guatemala. He has participated in the famous Calle 8 Festival and will be a signature voice in Teleton 2009. For more of Mario Mejia visit his website www.mariomejia.net.

ABC Pre-School Parents Night

ABC Pre School celebrated Parents Night with the graduating class of 2009 last night at the Angel Nuñez Auditorium. Parents were delighted with wonderful presentations from their children. There was plenty of singing, dancing and games for everybody enjoy.

Lobster Fest 2009 Gallery

A full gallery of Lobsterfest is already up at Ambergris Today Online. Click on image above.

The New Albert Street

If you have not been to the city lately, this is how Albert Street looks like now. Newly paved and upgraded. WOW!

Meet Miss Costa Rica for Costa Maya Fest

Name: Jennifer Miranda Rodríguez

Age: 19 years old

Height: 5” 5’

Profession: Acting Students at the University of Costa Rica and English student at the at the Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano

Light green eyes, Brown hair and clear skin

Hobbies: Acting, singing, modeling and reading

Patronage for Dia de San Pedro

If you look around town you probably have noticed that many businesses and homes have put up a red and green flag. Why are they displaying this flag you may ask? It is in patronage to the Dia de San Pedro Festivities that will take place this weekend. The San Pedro Roman Catholic Church has the flags for sale. Dia de San Pedro (San Pedro Day) falls on Monday, June 29, and the San Pedro Town Council has a weekend full of activities for the celebrations. Click on the poster below to view the schedule of events.

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More Graduations Over the Weekend

On Friday, June 19, Isla Bonita Elementary held their graduation ceremonies

Saturday, June 20 was San Pedro R.C. School's Graduation Day

St. Peter's Elementary and High School held graduation ceremonies on Sunday, June 21 (Pic by Jose Luis Zapata)

Holy Cross Anglican School Graduation on Sunday, June 21

Lobster Fest 2009

San Pedro was a lobster lover’s paradise this past week, as Lobster Fest 2009 drew the crowds by the hundreds at the Lobster Festival Block Party that was held on Saturday, June 20, at Central Park. Lobster delicacies were on the top of the menu, probably the only thing on the menu, at all the food booths. Restaurants from around the island set up their mobile kitchen at Central Park in order to cook and boast their top Lobster dishes, appetizers and even desserts. The third annual Lobster Fest was bigger than last year; not even the rain chased the crowd away. Taking top honor awards at the festival were the following businesses:

Best Lobster Entrée - Elvi’s Kitchen

Best Lobster Appetizer – Sunset Grill

Best Cocktail – Black Orchid Spa

Best Booth – Rojo Lounge

People’s Choice (most visited booth) Elvi’s Kitchen & Red Ginger

Read more on Lobster Fest on Thursday’s edition of Ambergris Today Newspaper including a full picture gallery.

Sunset Grill staff kept busy serving all that great food

Sunset Grill's Caribbean Lobster

Elvi's Kitchen won Best Lobster Entree

The taps were flowing at the Bayside Bar booth

Scarleth tries her luck at the Deluscious Booth

Pirate's Pizza

Delicious Grilled Lobster Tail from Red Ginger

Rojo lounge won Best Booth

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day from the students at ABC PreSchool.

Searious Adventures Clarifies Boat Accident

After reading many media reports on the boat accident which occurred yesterday, Thursday, June 18, 2009, the management of Searious Adventures submitted a letter to Ambergris Today to clarify the erroneous information that was published about the accident.

“After an unfortunate collision which occurred during a heavy rain we were notified and immediately went to assist the situation,” stated the letter from Searious Adventures. The company wishes to clarify the situation that was wrongly reported in a daily website blog on the island, whose information was picked up by other media house in Belize City and another San Pedro Blog.

As it stands, Searious Adventures confirms that one of its boats collided with another boat and they assisted with getting the injured man to a local clinic on the Island. The letter submitted to Ambergris Today continued to clarify the matter as follows:

(Open Quote) “On Friday, June 19, the blog post read – ‘Searious Adventures crashed into a 24 foot boat while Mr. Badillo was fishing’ - First of all … (1) The name is incorrect (2) The location is incorrect (3) The action is incorrect. He was not fishing. (4) The Hospital mentioned was incorrect. (5) His condition named in the article is incorrect. And Searious Adventures did not crash into Mr. Badillo’s boat…So basically the entire article is full of false facts and untrue information. Sometimes situations occur that are out of our control and accidents happen.” (End Quote)

Searious Adventures believes that not only has their name been slandered, but that the false information has exposed an exaggerated situation that affects tourism on a whole.

Editor's Note: Ambergris Today contacted Mr. Badillo's family and they informed us that Mr. Armin Badillo was released from Universal Health Services, he is not in any serious condition and that he had taken the precautionary medical check-ups. Searious Adventures is doing all it can to assist Mr. Badillo.