We never heard the results of that "serious discussion" - and we still have to wait and see if Norwegian will make any calls to Belize City for this cruise season. While FECTAB fumes about that, they're also angry at the Belize Tourism Board. As we've reported the BTB wants to move them form in front of the Fort Street Tourism Village's Terminal to inside the memorial park. They say this is just another kind of Alcatraz:...
David Almendarez, Cave Tubing R Us
"Rumors is that they want to put us in that alcatraz that they built that they called Memorial Park. The records show the last time they had that meeting I told them that was ghost town and now they want to put us at ghost town. They will have meeting next week to get all the tour operators there. I am telling Mr. Longsworth, because you sent the letter, to "fix up." Because we are not afraid of you either. Don't wake a dog that is sleeping. Don't raise a lion that is not biting you, because you don't want the lion to wake up and everything is broken up."
Yohny Rosado, cavetubing.com
"The government is not fighting for the cruise ship to dock from here from 8am until 5am until 6am. One cruise ship comes here from 5am in the morning and wants to go at 2pm and they do a city tour walking. What you think they are going to see on Albert Street? Jules you live on Albert Street."
"The government should not allow for them to come 5am and go at 2pm. They already have a manifest that they will visit our country from 8am until 5pm. Jules, if they were here from 8am until 5pm, Memorial Park will work, because the people will have enough time to walk around and they see the ship. But now everybody is at a rush going at 2pm and rush coming at 1pm. It's a rush. Nobody have time to go to the restroom. So why are you taking us to the Memorial Park? Fix it so we can pick up our guests there or meet them inland or give us our port. We need a port urgently. If we don't get a port, we are some kind of prophesies by FECTAB - there will have a lot more crime. If I can't do good for my country, I will do bad for my country? That's how a regular person thinks."
BTB has planned broad consultations with the operators before making any move.
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