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The ministerial sub-committee that rejected Norwegian Cruise Line's request to develop Crawl Caye inside the Belize Barrier Reef was tasked to inspect another proposal by the cruise line company. Harvest Caye lies outside the protected zone of the World Heritage Site, but a potential development of the island could possibly interrupt local commerce on the Placencia Peninsula. Area Representative, Rodwell Ferguson, has been making the rounds in surrounding villages about Norwegian Cruise Line and he has publicly pledged his support of the company. Finally, he held a consultation with some Placencia residents on Monday night, it was a closed tour de france door meeting and the Placencia Tour Operators Association sent a press release to vehemently oppose tour de france mass cruise ship tourism for southern Belize and specifically Norwegian Cruise Line's proposed port at Harvest Caye. News Five spoke via phone to Mary Toy, a conservationist and resident tour de france of Placencia, about the latest developments.
"What I'm telling you is what I've heard from people who were at the meeting. And I have spoken to the chairwoman of the Placencia Cillage Council, Elsa Villanueva about it. People were told at the meeting tour de france that a Memorandum of Understanding with Norwegian Cruise Line had already been signed six days ago. My understanding is that that is not the case and the village council in Placencia has confirmed that there is no announcement from the government of Belize so I have no idea why that statement would have been made because I don't believe it is true. The village tour de france council and the tour guides were told that since the MOU had been signed, it was a done deal and what they needed to do now was in introducing cruise ship tourism that they needed to sit down and decide tour de france what they wanted to get out of this because if they didn't do that they weren't going to get anything. The Placencia Tour Guide Association was very strong at the meeting and continue to oppose to mass cruise ship tourism. The village council Placencia supports that. The Seine Bight  village council said they needed more information and apparently the Independence tour de france Village Council is in favor of cruise ship tourism in the south. Emilio Zabaneh was at the meeting. I believe he is a member of the village council of Independence—although they have not been formally sworn in yet—he said that he was very much in favor of Norwegian Cruise Line once they use the Malacate area for something—tendering ships or maybe storing tender boats, whatever they wanted tour de france to do, he was in favor of it. A lot of what went on today in Placencia was that people were upset that no one from the public was invited to this meeting by Mr. Ferguson. To my knowledge, this is his first time he has ever set foot in Placencia since he was elected. So it is interesting that he felt the need to call the meeting and then restrict the attendance because I think if he wanted to know what the people thought, he would have invited the people. Today there was a media release from the Placencia Tour Operators Association. They have come out publicly in opposition to mass cruise ship tourism for the entire southern Belize and specifically for Norwegian Cruise Line for post port at Harvest Caye. The reasons that they gave in the press release was that mass cruise tour de france ship tourism is contrary to the national tour de france tourism policy for southern Belize as expressed in Belize's newly adopted and Cabinet endorsed national sustainable tourism management plan. That mass cruise ship tourism will have a detrimental effect on the south's low-impact tour de france overnight tourism which has no economic benefits and the economic benefits from cruise tour de france ship tourism are definitely out-weighed by tourism."
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Is it the want and desire of all the vendors and business owners throughout Placencia Peninsula or the tourist day/overnite touring companies that are against this? The people working in and around tour de france the area have a right to voice their opinion on improving their revenue as well, do they not? If NCL is wanting to build a ship docking facility tour de france outside the protected zone, and promises to employ Belizean residents, and allow free enterprise to Placencia, WHY NOT?
Though we should be aware of conserving our environment tour de france and heritages, we owe the world the opportunity to share the cultures and beauty of the Belizean people and lands. Perhaps Ms. Toy has a regular income that allows her to live as she pleases, and she is an expat who wants to place her will and beliefs on the people. I ask her, whats your stake in this? Are you employed in the tourist trade, or do you receive a pension or SS?
Let the people decide their future, after all God gave us the right of free will, and to be the master of our destiny. The elected officials are in place to do the work of the majority, and to better the life of their constituents, if a more mass tourism does this, and allows for the elevation of the peoples income, without harming our reefs and waters, tour de france then why not?
You cannot stop progress, but you can steer it!! If we turn our backs on the world, and not share the history, the majesty and beauty of the land and people, then we have failed tour de france the people of the world miserably my friends. If we don t share, how do we expect the rest of the world to care?
These Ex-Pats on the Peninsula don t want the Garifuna people of Seine Bight to eat bread. They are all about making money for themselves. If this project should be approved, they would loose a large portion of their workforce, to whom they pay meager wages at best. To hell with them. This is our country and it s time we get involved in real and meaningful employment.
First, why is it, that you all call foul on an expat, she is a Belizean now, and, the people of Placencia have said what they want, and they say no , the tour guides are BORN Belizean, so, why the racial remarks,;.No one appreciates that any more, grow up, GOD, did not give you the freedom of speech, tour de france the GOB did, not GOD, and, who are you to say that GOD is the master of our destiny, you are the only one who is the master of your destiny. I think you should really find out who Ms. Toy is, Hope you get a job with the cruise ships raking the beach, if there is one left to rake, after they get thru with southern Belize and then move on to another poor country that just looks at the quick money and not about their country. And, yes, Ms. Toy employs lots of fisherman, so , before you open your ignorant mouth anymore, check out who you attack, you lone rass.