Oct 18, 2022
Placencia’s Gold: Khajdija Assales wins YLAI Ambassador of the Year Thousands of young entrepreneurs apply every year to the Young Leaders of Americas Initiative (YLAI). 280 are chosen to participate in their fellowship program. Only one wins their Pitch Solution...
Oct 18, 2022
Placencia’s Hallmark: The Ideal Tropical Set I’m an unabashed Hallmark girl and my corny-loving cronies will know exactly what that means. It denotes donning a blanket, curling up on the couch with a pizza or a tub of ice cream for one, and watching a love story...
May 3, 2019
What People Don’t Tell You About Victoria Peak “Take an Orange”, they said. “It’ll be cold”, they said. “There’ll be ticks”, they said. No one, not once, said the words “free climb” to me. That was true, of course, until I was clinging to a rock face 3,200 feet...
Mar 22, 2019
A Boneyfide Reason to Party Don’t ask his real name; Placencia’s most sought after DJ goes by Boneyfide and that’s how he wants to keep it. ‘Boney’ (the only nickname he’ll accept) fondly reminices how, while growing up in Belize City, his mom used to play a lot of...
Mar 1, 2019
Placencia Bids Farewell to Fyah Gal We’re on the Point. The torch is lit. Twenty-four glittering contestants line the boardwalk, each taking their turn to hold the flame high against the candy blue sky and pass it to the next contender. I’m last in line and I drop to...
