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I am a frequent visitor to San Pedro, 5>6 times a year. I've toyed with the thoughts of buying a property and simply extending my visits to months rather than a week or so, but have decided to remain a tourist and not to buy a home there simply because of the conditions being discussed in this thread. Somehow, I doubt that I am alone in my views of this problem.
In the past I have been in business management and law enforcement management positions and have had the oppertunity to observe similar problems and even participated in solution discussions. One thing was always apparent at the begenning of these talks; ie, averybody acknowledged that a problem existed and that a good solution would improve the community and its environment imeasurably. But, when all of the talking was done and the problem reidentified, the solution always boiled down to management by "choice" and not by "chance". And after it was fully understood that it was imperative that the community be operated like a "business", and not a hobby, or as a spoke in a big wheel, and had a Chief Executive Officer in charge, wonderful things began to take place. AC is the biggest business in the country of Belize and it needs to be dealt with as such. There is no substitute for a "Plan" when none exists. JMHO... dirty American Tourist.