Supreme Court hands down Decision on the 2008 Annual Tariff Review Proceeding

The Supreme Court handed down its decision this morning on the case brought by Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) appealing the Public Utilities Commission’s Final Decision, following the 2008 Annual Tariff Review Proceeding.

The Court dismissed BEL’s appeal. BEL is reviewing the decision.

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Saga Humane Society Cook-off - PIZZA

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6 – 9 p.m. at the Tackle Box Bar & Grill

Come out and support Saga Humane Society with our monthly cook-off fundraiser for 2011. Each month will feature a different theme and the recipes will become part of a cookbook that will be available for sale at the end of the year.

There will be a prize for 1st and 2nd place and also a raffle on the night of the event.
To enter, bring your “Pizza” dish to the event no later than 6:00 p.m. The dish must serve a minimum of 75 sample size portions.

Please come out and support Saga Humane Society. A great cause for our community! The cost is $10.00 BZ to sample all the entries. A fun night for all!

IMPORTANT:
Please bring your recipe along with your entry so it can become part of our Cookbook. Thank you!!

Weekend Sporting Activities

The San Pedro RC School kicked off the weekend on Friday with their football marathon. All classes formed teams in various categories to compete against each other. The marathon lasted through Saturday night.

On Sunday San Mateo Residents gathered at the bridge foot to support the various teams that competed in an all day sporting event at the Paradise Theater grounds.

Planned Power Outage - San Pedro Town - Friday, March 18, 2011

Belize Electricity Limited advises its customers in San Pedro Town that the supply of electricity will be temporarily interrupted from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2011.

Areas to be affected: All of Pescador Drive, Coconut Drive, Almond Street, Elliott Subdivision, San Marcos, San Pedrito, DFC Subdivision and San Pablo Area.

BEL apologizes for the inconvenience caused but this outage is necessary for the company to facilitate system improvement works on the distribution system in the area.

For customer inquiries and services call us toll free at: 0-800-BEL-CARE OR 0-800-235-2273. To view scheduled outages via our website visit: http://www.bel.com.bz/services_outages.asp

The San Pedro Sun Turns 20!

Below is a history of The San Pedro Sun, edited from e-mail correspondence from the late Bruce Collins, who passed away in December, 2009. Bruce and Victoria Collins started The Sun in 1991.

The Coconut Wireless was the first paper to be sporadically published on the island and Linda Cornelison was the owner, editor and publisher. Other residents on the island including Victoria and myself [Bruce] and Woody Canady worked with Cornelison to put out the first issue using Linda's computer, with a broken hard drive and only one floppy disc worked. Shortly after, Cornelison had to return to the states for medical reasons and she asked that we and Canady keep printing the paper. We printed thirteen issues and managed to get the publication out of debt. In November, 1990 Cornelison returned to the island and took over publishing the Wireless again. Plagued with personal problems, Cornelison managed to sporadically print The Wireless but ran into legal problems and was incarcerated for some time. Eventually the The Wireless failed to exist.

In the meantime we were in the stage of starting our own newspaper but waited until the inevitable demise of The Wireless. On March 14, 1991 the first issue of The San Pedro Sun was printed. Our first office was in Fido's using a Brother word processor and I kept asking Victoria, "Tell me again we can do this newspaper on a word processor." Well, we did until we bought our first computer from Jeanette Salfeety who was working in San Pedro for her environmental group. It was really cut & paste! (end)

In 1996 the paper was sold to Dan and Eileen Jamison and in 2004 Ron and Tamara Sniffin purchased the paper from them. In 2006 Bruce Collins wrote, “Victoria and I have been talking about what a fine job you and your staff have been doing at The San Pedro Sun. You seem to have the same philosophy as we did and have even figured out how to make money on the web (The Visitor Guide) while promoting the community at the same time. That escaped us at the time we started going on the web. We knew there was a way to do it and you have found it. The Sun looks professional and fulfills a need in the community in a positive, dignified way. We couldn't be more pleased it is in your and your staff's hands. Thank you for continuing to send it to us. We know you will continue to get better and better. Thank you for keeping our love affair with San Pedro and The Sun alive and well. We hope to meet you some day; you're doing a wonderful job. The newspaper is everything we hoped it would be.”

The San Pedro Sun has the community to thank for our years of success and we are proud to be the voice of the people. We look forward to a long and prosperous future and embrace all of those who have helped us along our way as we have grown into what we are today. Thank you all!

We also honor Mr. Collins on this day and he will be remembered always.