Geezer?
How old are you?
This is simply about a little respect for many people who run businesses on this island and don't need tourism driven away.
Times are tough, the weather was bad last year, people are barely making it as it is.
Were they supposed to print the money to fund this thing, take out loans from Belizean banks at 12-15%?
People here are hard at work, building, repairing lobster traps, hoping against hope for a little break from the mess the US bankers created in 2008, they surely didn't need this bad press.
Go to Placencia by all means if you feel that strongly about it.