The San Pedro Sun

What is The San Pedro Sun?

The San Pedro Sun is a newspaper based at #63 Barrier Reef Drive in San Pedro, on Ambergris Caye, with a website at sanpedrosun.com. Its site describes it as a weekly tourism and community-oriented newspaper serving Ambergris Caye and gives its start as 1991.^[1] Its title line reads “San Pedro News, Ambergris Caye News, Belize News”.^[1]

The newspaper's about page, whose metadata carries a modification date of 7 July 2025, states that it is “Owned and operated by Tamara and Ron Sniffin”; that is the page's own statement, and no later ownership record was retrieved.^[9]

What does The San Pedro Sun cover?

Sport has its own section at sanpedrosun.com/sports/. As retrieved on 26 September 2026, its most recent items were two San Pedro Pirates players' call-up to Belize's senior national team (26 September), an inter-office league on Ambergris Caye (24 September), a Premier League of Belize match (23 September), local football results (22 September) and Belize's results at the regional student games (18 September).^[2]

Premier League of Belize. The paper follows the San Pedro Pirates through the league's Opening Season of 2026–27. On 17 August 2026 it reported that the Pirates beat Progresso FC 2–0 in their season opener at the Ambergris Stadium, San Pedro Town, on 15 August.^[5] On 16 September it reported that Napoles beat the Pirates 3–1 in week seven, on 12 September, at the Football Federation of Belize Stadium in Belmopan, the Pirates' first defeat of the season.^[6] On 23 September it reported that the Pirates beat Benque United 5–1 at the Ambergris Stadium on 19 September, naming the scorers for both sides.^[3] None of these reports names the body that organises the league.^[5]

Student games. On 18 September 2026 it reported that Belize won nine medals, two gold, three silver and four bronze, in athletics and volleyball at the 22nd Central American Student Sports Games, CODICADER 2026, held from 4 to 13 September in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. It named the athletes and their schools and reported that the National Sports Council congratulated them.^[4]

How large is The San Pedro Sun's audience?

No audited readership survey, circulation audit or web-audience measurement for Belizean newspapers was retrieved, and the pages of the newspaper that were retrieved publish no circulation figure. No figure is given here.

The site describes its readership in terms of place, Ambergris Caye, rather than size.^[1]

Since when has The San Pedro Sun existed?

The newspaper's own site states that it has provided local and national news “since 1991”.^[1] The same year appears in the text accompanying its sports reports.^[3] No independent source for the date was retrieved, and it is given as the newspaper's own.

Why does The San Pedro Sun matter in Belize's sport?

It reports the top football division match by match for the San Pedro Pirates, home and away, through the 2026–27 Opening Season, and it reported Belize's medal results at the 2026 CODICADER student games with the athletes' schools named.^[5][6][3][4]

Its archive of league coverage runs back at least to 2018. On 21 December 2018 it reported that the San Pedro Pirates were leaving the Premier League of Belize, quoting the club: “Unfortunately, we will not be in the Premier League of Belize next season. The reason being that there is no support for sports in San Pedro.”^[7] On 26 November 2024 it reported that the Pirates, back in the league, had beaten Verdes FC 4–3 on aggregate to reach the final of the 2024–2025 opening season against Port Layola.^[8]

As retrieved, its sports section carried items dated from 18 to 26 September 2026 on local island leagues as well as national competition and the national team.^[2]