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What's a desal plant? And a desart? eek

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Go ahead and correct my spelling

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I believe that the Arabs dug wells in the 'desart'. Get out your divination rod Steve. I'm sure you'll find a fresh water well up north.


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Sounds good, might give potential reef village suckers, sorry, I mean investors an option.
Can't wait to see this web site.

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I sincerely hope this is not for really for any serious consideration. It would truly destroy the charm & spirit of Belize. Visitors come to Ambergris to get away from the hustle & bustle and to experience true island life. C'mon how could a monorail in a "jungle" possibily be eco-friendly?? Unless it's magically suspended in air you'd have to cut down a certain amount of vegatation!

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The people who prefer to visit and/or live on the northern part of the island prefer it because they want the quiet life MORE than the conveniences of town life. Let a choice remain!

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We northerners even nixed the offer of FREE streetlights. Seems that people who like to just drive around up here wanted to feel SAFE. Those of us who live up here like to see the night sky. I hate to even think about how a 300-room hotel, with all its accouterments, would affect your neighbors. What's that old saying "How to make friends and influence people?"
I did not want to be the first to refer to Reef Village but Steve; you might want to research the boards to see the response to that project.
BTW - I use spell check - you might try it.
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Just to give an idea of how big 300 rooms would be - you would have to combine*:

Journey's End Resort (70 rooms), Banana Beach Resort (66 rooms), Ramon's Village (61 rooms), Belizean Shores (48 rooms), Captain Morgan's Retreat (45 rooms), Lily's (10 rooms)

Well you can dream but it's unrealistic to think that you could build a 300-room resort with no infrastructure in place to support it. No roads, no water, no phones, no housing, no way of transporting large volumes of supplies and on and on.

You might get away with building it in the south end but the way things are even that would be a stretch. We don't even have enough water pressure to support Boca del Rio never mind a 300 room resort. Maybe in 10 or 15 years the infrastructure might be there but reality dictates otherwise at this time.

I'm assuming that the goal is to make money not to throw it away. Even with all the concessions that such a development would request (no taxes, no duties, no restrictions on labour pool, low interest or no interest loans from the government, immunity from loan defaults, immunity from EA's), you would still have a rough time pulling it off.

Let's face it, anyone who wanted to put together such a project would take one look at realities here and would walk away or build something more realistic. As far as benefits to the country or AC, the downsides would far outweigh the upsides.

One final thing on the road, it's taken years to get about a miles worth of paved road in the south end, where the majority of the population lives and where the greatest number of rooms exist (last count - 900 south, 350 north). What makes you think that there will be a road built for the north end anytime soon when most people are quite happy to have none?

I'm all for continuing development of the island but in a realistic way that benefits not strains the community.

*some numbers may be low due to ongoing construction.

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Whatever happened with the army barracks-type houses just north of Victoria House that were supposedly part of some casino operation?

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