Maybe i DID help pay for the paving SIN. Your argument is circular, amigo.

www.azulik.com in Tulum, paved.

Thank God the road are paved in Cayo, a true paradise and to Hopkins and to Punta Gorda and soon Placencia.

I can't see rivers or mud and dust storms as paradise. The sand paved streets did, at one time, add to the charm of Ambergris Caye, not any more.

I think IMHO that front street, in town, should be kept natural and closed to traffic - all day, all year and the remainder of the island should slowly be brought up to date with dry,clean roads.

Healthy children should be a primary concern, I think the visitors, whom we make our livelyhood from, would appreciate that as well.

SIN

Big ugly concrete buildings, piles of trash on the beach, vagrants without meaningful employment, excesses of large trucks, speeding taxis, golf carts, motorcycles and bikes, packs of stray dogs, unsupervised children running through the streets, numerous beach vendors, etc...how could a nice smooth road ruin our paradise? Perhaps it may be a step in the proper direction of taking back our Island which has paid dearly to develop the remainder of Belize and has also been greatly neglected and abused by the same.

That's one to marinate on.

SIN

YO SIN, if you think it's that bad then leave. Maya has a 5:00 flight.

I see you like to quote Gearge Price. I like this politicians take on difficult tasks:
We choose to go to
the moon in this decade and do the other things,
not because they are easy, but because they are
hard, because that goal will serve to organize
and measure the best of our energies and skills,
because that challenge is one that we are willing
to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and
one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
JFK

I think it's George though.

JFK was President of a developed country and got shot in the head by a magic bullet, GP is the father of a nation and has never been shot (even in Belize City), I would say he is a bit more like George Washington - who probably wished for pavement and had wooden teeth.

I'll stay and help ruin paradise thank you.

Happy Holidaze!!

SIN

Let me see...as I drive my family the couple of miles down to visit Amanda's house...
My wife gets grit in her contacts and the kids breath unhealthy dust.
And on a rainy day we wouldn't think about going due to the streets.
And I lost a flip flop one rainy evening walking from the SunBreeze to Pauly's Pizza and was splashed a few times by passing vehicles.
How will a few paved roads ruin paradise?
Tahiti-paved roads.
Hawaii-paved roads.
Whitsunday Islands-paved roads.
And maybe a few less mosquitos will hang out in standing water if the roads drain properly!
JMHO

JFK was talking about something difficult and unprecidented, and didn't shrink from the task.
WE are talking about the cheap/easy fix vs the expensive/difficult fix to a relatively simple problem, and are aparently choosing the former.
Washington had wooden teeth but i think you got a wooden head.

Good one reaper!

Jeez people, it's just roads! Relaaaaaaaaaaaaax. :-)