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It's the most visited tourist site in Belize - and tour operators have called on COLA to take their issue to the forefront. That's what Sulph did today and in an interview with 7news….

Moses Sulph
"The road is in a serious condition and I am not saying this to tick off anyone but it's the truth. If you have a place that is bringing in a substantial amount revenue to the country then I think you would want to give attention to the access to those places that us bringing those revenue and you would have wanted to make those people comfortable who are contributing that revenue to the country. as far as I understand the archaeological site that NICH runs there is $10 a head for each tourist that enters that site and in 2008-2009 approximately a million person enter that site - that's about ten million dollars, so I am saying that what NICH can do is basically used some of that money to go back to repair the road and make sure that road is upkeep. I went with the tours yesterday and some of the tourists who were on the buses were shaking up and all that, they are wondering why the road is in such condition."

The Minister of Works has told us that the road is on his radar, but he would have hoped that it was included in one of the recent foreign funded Tourism Development Projects.