When they first posted that traffic had to go around the turn-around there was a lot of confusion with traffic. One day as I approached it a young boy, under six years, suddenly swerved his bicycle into the front fender of my golf cart. He and the bike fell and I was terrified I had hurt him. By the time I got out of the golf cart and was saying "Is he alright, is he alright?" the mother had picked him up by his shirt collar and was lashing him. She was telling him how bad he was and was waving me off. She marched him and the bicycle on down the road and he was getting a good tongue lashing.
In the US the mother would have been yelling at me, the boy may have pulled a gun and shot me and for sure I would be sued.
Belize is not yet perfect but there are some things that are just taken care of in a civilized way that makes me love living here.