My husband and I have a home in southern Belize, have made over 50 trips over a period of twelve years. I seldom post to this message board because every time you post anything negative about Belize everyone on this board is up in arms against you. Belize is a wonderful country, filled with a great group of people. However it does have it's flaws. It's obvious to me that on this board that there is not a free flow of information, some of the monitors are very quick to delete posts. Hey I wish that everyone could go to Belize have the same wonderful experiences that I have had but that is not the way the world turns. You have to be prepared to take the good with the bad. I just don't know if this board could adjust to looking at some of the serious problems that one encounters in Belize. Are you prepared for debates in the areas of crime, animal control, immigration,
duty, problems with living in Belize, employment, health care, fuel prices, electric prices. Even a simple question is capable of bringing such a variety of responses. For instance what if we were to have someone bring up the concerns of people regarding the development of timeshares in Belize. Now you are going to get an awful lot of differing opinions on this issue alone. Are the board monitors going to be able to handle the posts that will follow?
Now I would be the first to vote that you set up such a forum but just worried about the deletion of posts that don't give glowing reports of happenings in Belize.

Recent incidents that come to mind are the "Idaho divers" report, before that someone asked about "interaction with the locals". Those would just be two examples that I can remember.

[This message has been edited by kcbc (edited 05-22-2001).]