Carolyn Flores, President, Belize Baseball Federation
"Well we are recognized by the national sports council. It's the Belize olympic committee that's been giving us a hard time. What happened was we wrote to the world baseball, softball confederation, we wrote to them from 2019 and asked them to become a member once you are a member of the WBSC then you can get the grants and all those things necessary for the development of baseball. Thanks to Cordel Hyde the minister of natural resources, he facilitated legally of course for us to acquire ten acres of land which we purchased and we believe that our partnership with the WBSC would have assisted, will assist significantly with the development of the state of our softball, baseball program. What happened is that the WBSC said that we have met every requirement except one requirement which is an official letter from the Belize olympic committee stating that we are the leading authority of baseball in Belize which we are. We are the ones who revived the game we are the ones who brought back the recognition of the game we play the game we understand the game and everything else is just basically copycatting I don't know what is the reason, I have been liaising with the secretary general for at least two years now maybe three of the Belize olympic committee and I said to him listen we have written to the WBSC and they said to us that we have met every requirement except this just one letter but the Olympic committee I don't know they sent us a letter wrote us letter, sent us an email late last year saying that based on past, present and current proposals or something, that they are not able to make us a member as yet we met with them at least once and we tabled our concerns but for some reason they are unwilling to make us a member of the Belize olympic committee."