The Southern Coast Features

The Southern Coast Features

  • Top Reasons to Go to The Southern Coast

    Beaches. The mainland's best beaches are on the Placencia peninsula and around Hopkins. Although they're narrow ribbons of khaki rather than wide... Read more

  • Development, Belize-Style

    "People are building $500,000 houses on $5,000 roads!" This is the sentiment of many who watch in amazement as huge condos and luxury houses... Read more

  • A Creole Primer

    The Creole language is associated with the Creole or black people of Belize, especially those around Belize City. But people all over Belize... Read more

  • Missing Bridge

    Tropical Storm Arthur, which formed off the coast of Belize on May 31, 2008, and quickly moved ashore, in a few hours dumped up to 15 inches... Read more

  • The Garífuna Struggle

    Perhaps the most unusual of the ethnic groups calling Belize home, the Garífunas have a story that is both bizarre and moving, an odyssey... Read more

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