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Is a Church More than its Members? Belize Satellite
This church rents a shut down movie theater on Sundays for two services -8 :30 and 10:00 am. The mother church is in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Sagebrush, I have been told by an Albuquerque friend who is a member, is on Albuquerque's west side and...
Captain Morgan’s Resort and Casino privateers and pirates
The resort and casino are on the north side of Ambergris Caye and you get there in a taxi by the new road, or a water taxi with Coastal Express, or catch one of the resort's own shuttles that bring guests to and from their accommodations. This time of...
La Taqueria street food
There is street food in San Pedro Town. This little enterprise, " La Taqueria ", opens at seven thirty each morning on Coconut Street where the road turns towards the Average Joe Bar and Caribbean Fuels gas station, and turns again past the S & P...
Beach bar vows Wayo's wedding
There are at least two hundred invited guests but anyone can join this wedding.. Wayos is a popular beach bar in San Pedro Town and Wayo, pronounced Y -oh, is a popular owner. When the groom arrives in a black golf cart limo, there is applause and...
Karaoke in Belize Wade paints his sign
Two popular pastimes in San Pedro Town are Karaoke and Drinking. Since bars open early and close late, there is always a lot of drinking going on. Likewise, when karaoke starts and participants pick up a microphone, the singing, good, bad, and ugly,...
Reality Cuts to the Chase Good, Bad, and Ugly in Belize
The difference between coming to Belize with money, and living here without money, is substantial. Belize has staggering statistics. It has the highest incidence of HIV in Central America. It has twenty to thirty percent unemployment. The doctor per...
Reggae Belize Crazy Canuck's Sunday Funday
Sunday is FunDay at Crazy Canuck's. Three to seven, the Cover Ups hammer out reggae, Santana, Jimmy Buffett and pop songs from last year and yesteryear. As the band powers up, an investment conference concludes with a drum roll and attendees shut...
Art is Fishing Husband and wife team
"She likes details," Bruce Cooper says of his wife. Their gallery, in a rented shop on main street in Caye Caulker, presents her art. She paints and he runs the business end of their collaboration. "We sell original art, prints, and small stocking...
Chez Caribe Chez Tortuga
Real estate is booming in San Pedro Town. Jack says, " if you own real estate and aren't keeping it rented you are doing something wrong." Chez Caribe is his old wood and concrete two story house. He lives upstairs and rents six small units...
Hitch hiking Getting from point A to point B
I haven't seen many thumbs out in San Pedro Town. There are a few people moving in the rain but most of those out this morning are laborers pedaling bicycles to work,tourists driving special golf carts, and taxi's running people to the airport from...
Ak’Bol Yoga Retreat Sanctuary
Ak'Bol was built into a business by a couple who came to Belize twenty years ago with a dream of nature, health, spirit, and capitalism. The entrance is not well announced and if you are driving you will zip right past in your sprint for bigger resorts...
Martial Arts Morning Lesson 101
Martial arts has moved forward since Bruce Lee dazzled with new fighting styles and choreographed movie fight scenes that are classics. Now, real fighting happens on cable TV and the ancient " Friday night at the fights" has been trounced by MMA cage...
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