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How can I get intouch with the Hon. Manuel Heredia jr.

I have a box of large sky hooks that he can have a great price, no need for a road to be built if he uses these.

I am a ceiling Contractor, I will take those skyhooks!

What kind would you like? Bell, Sikorsky, or maybe Hughs..

I just got my map of the Palm Bay Club out and after wiping the beads of sweat off my brow finally came to grips with the reality that this road would have to run right through the PBC development because the very north of the tip of the island is all PBC land.

They would have to buy out some of the lot owners. The question is: Would they give us more than what we paid for each lot? What leverage could we use to get big bucks?

Jesse? Sir Issac Newton? Heeeeeeeelllllllllp !!!

EL-777

Let your grandkids or great-grandkids worry about it.

Belmopan, 17 August 2009. The Embassy of Mexico informs that on 15 August, the Mayor of the municipality of Othon P. Blanco (Chetumal), Mr. Andres Ruiz-Morcillo, and Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviación and Culture, Hon. Manuel Heredia, signed a Letter of Intent in order to promote the construction of a road between San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, and Xcalak (within the Municipality of Othon P. Blanco), Mexico. The objective of the Letter of Intent is to boost the tourism industry in the Chetumal Bay and the north of Belize, including Ambergris Caye. In particular, Mexico and Belize will seek to

connect San Pedro with Xcalak (Mexico) and Mahahual with a road from where an already existing access will make possible the connection with Chetumal or Tulum and Cancun.

The document was signed before the undersecretary of Tourism of the State of Quintana Roo, Mr. Armando Alvarez-Gonzalez, the Director of the Port Authority of Quintana Roo, Mr. Javier Zetina-Gonzalez and the Ambassador of Mexico, H.E. Luis Manuel Lopez-Moreno.

Likewise, the Mayor of Othon P. Planco announced the project of a water taxi, which will link Chetumal and Xcalak with Belize. The future water taxi would depart from the "Muelle Fiscal" -the Customs Dock Facility in Chetumal - with a stop at Sarteneja and San Pedro and arrival at Xcalak. The run will be operated by the Belizean company San Pedro Belize Express Water Taxi. This service will allow visitors from Chetumal to travel to San Pedro and Xcalak and from there to visit Mahahual and Chinchorro (Mexico). It will also allow Belizeans to travel easily from San Pedro to Chetumal. The new water taxi will benefit the local population on both sides of the border, it will boost the tourism industry and it will promote the economic development of the border area of Mexico and Belize.

In Chetumal, Mexican officials boarded the boat for the familiarization trip, which showed the route of the upcoming water taxi service. They travelled to Sarteneja, where Hon. Heredia hosted them and the signing of the Letter of Intent took place.

Guardian

Water taxi idea is a winner and will work/works.
Mexico has cut a big deep channel connecting the Bay of Chetumal with the east coast.
You can see it clearly on Google Earth and my guys have run it by boat to Xcalak.
This part of the plan is solid, but the road idea is confusing, something odd about that agreement, the part about the road must be just a token and the real agenda is the Water taxi route..
I'm not spending money on speed bumps just yet.
Still skeptical of the road idea to many obstacles and no funding.

And remember, we are talking a full bore road, not a modified cart path.
A cart path type of road (paved) would be of intrest I think to all of the northern properties past the cut.

Road, water taxi will link San Pedro to Chetumal & Ixcalac
The Reporter
Friday, 21.08.2009, 09:03am (GMT-6)

By Homero Ayuso - Staff Reporter
Belize and Mexico have reached general agreement on their intention to build a road that will link San Pedro, the capital of Ambergris Caye, with Ixcalac, the neighbouring Mexican coastal town on the other side of a small stretch of sea.

The paved, two-lane road is to be financed entirely by the Mexican government, according to a reliable Embassy source, and is to run, in the first phase of its construction, from San Pedro to Bacalar Chico, a community on the Mexican border on Ambergris Caye. The Mexican government will also install an Immigration/Customs checkpoint there.

Belize and Mexico have also agreed on a scheduled water taxi to link San Pedro, Ixcalac and Chetumal, to be operated by the San Pedro/Belize Water Taxi Express, a Belizean enterprise.

Letters of intent giving formal recognition to these two projects were signed Monday by Belize's Minister of Tourism, Manuel Heredia, and the Mayor of Chetumal, His Honour, Andres Ruíz Morcillo, and between Minister Heredia and Mexican officials Sr. Armando Alvarez Gonzalez, Under-Secretary of Tourism for the State of Qunitana Roo, Sr. Javier Zetina-Gonzalez, Director of the Port Authority for the State of Quintana Roo and Ambassador Luis Manuel Lopez-Moreno, Mexico's idefatigable diplomatic representative to Belize.

The water taxi service will begin almost immediately, and on Monday Mexican Officials boarded a boat which showed them the route from Chetumal to Ixcalac to San Pedro.

Minister Heredia took his guests to Sarteneja, a resort and fishing village on the northern coast of Corozal where they had lunch and signed the second letter of intent.

The water taxi will be a blessing for the people of Ixcalac, who will now have easy access to Chetumal and to San Pedro. Tourists and others in Mahahual, many of whom arrive by cruise ship, already have road access to Ixcalac, and Chetumal, but will now find it a lot easier to visit Chetumal and San Pedro through this sea link.

Mayor Ruiz Morcillo pointed out that communities on both sides of the border still share family ties, though now separated by political frontiers. The projected bilateral initiatives should bring about greater unity and cooperation, he said.

The land link to Ixcalac is something San Pedranos have dreamed of for more than half a century. Now that the northern sector of Ambergris Caye is bustling with development, it is believed the road project, which at this stage is just a plan, will quickly become a reality.

The purpose of the letter of intent is to boost the tourism industry in the Chetumal Bay area - a coastal tourist nucleus in the making involving Sarteneja, and San Pedro for Belize, Ixcalác and Mahahual, Tul�m and Canc�n for Mexico.

By the first agreement. Mexico and Belize will also seek to connect San Pedro and Ixcalac by road.

Ixcalac, Mahahual and Chetumal are already connected by road. Adding San Pedro to the mix will mean that tourists in Tul�m and Canc�n will be able to visit San Pedro by a road link through Ixcalac. From San Pedro the can fly to any part of Belize they choose .

Belizeans will also be able to travel easily to San Pedro and from San Pedro by sea to Chetumal. With adequate scheduling this can be accomplished in less time than by autobus, but at a higher cost.

The Mexican Embassy in Belize made the announcement about the road and the new sea link last Monday in Belmopan.

I can just see the traffic now. And a new 4 lane bridge to cross the cut. Traffic jams in San Pedro like New York City.