Chris it isn't a flame or personal attack and apologies aren't necessary as you haven't offended me. This sort of dialogue is only good if carried out in the right manner as it might find the solution. What do you expect the BTB to do? Stop and think about it.

The GOB, be they red or blue, are in the stay in power get votes business, full stop. That boils down to money in the populations pocket, so they're happy and vote them back in with education, hospitals, social services, etc important, but probably secondary. Money means jobs. Jobs in Belize equate to Tourism, the single largest Industry employer - at a guess.

The flight prices ARE an issue and I promise you GOB know this as it's linked to the above and could help solve a lot of their problems if they could attract more visitors. As you say they would be in the mass tourism business if they could be and hence their welcoming of Cruise Ships, hated by the overnight tourism businesses. So they do recognise this is an imortant issue and still the prices are high.

If you have the solution I'd love to hear it, and more so, so would Mike Singh and Junior Heredia.