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Boycott Ramon's Period.

Slowing dow traffic can and should be done by getting the traffic officers to enforce the speed limit. To date I have only seen them handing out parking tickets and looking for registration & insurance stickers. It's time that they are given a mandate to control speed.
I agree we have speeders - but the idea of installing a $150,000 eyesore to slow down vehicles is a ridiculous way to approach control. It's like getting a haircut with a screw-driver. It just doesn't work.

Close to 100 residents gathered around the construction site of the town clock, today October 31, 2011, to peacefully protest the decision of the San Pedro Town Council to erect a donated clock tower in the middle of Barrier Reef Drive (Front Street) in front of Central Park.

During her guest appearance on this morning's Good Morning San Pedro Talk Show on Reef Radio, Mayor Elsa Paz seemed to be indifferent about the concerns of the island residents, targeting expats, non-registered voters and US national.

"I will not listen to just a small group of people who do not represent the entire population of San Pedro," commented Mayor Paz to Eiden Salazar during the morning show. "I want to see more than 1,500 people at the protest for me to consider changing my decision."

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The election is in march and she'll be gone, her party will suffer from this lack of concern for the populations opinion and the incoming government will have a chance at controlled development.

Seems a lot of people in Belize can be bought!!! Too bad, this won't reflect nicely on those of us who spend thousands on the island. I know the disrespect shown to us "gringos" will encourage us to take our US $ elsewhere. Way to go, Mayor Elsa. We have choices, and you are making it easy to chose places where we are respected, and our money appreciated.

Changing the law that prevents non-Commonwealth residents from voting in local elections would do the trick.
Like Elsa says.'You don't vote, then zip up your lips and hit the road. You have no brain, at least no brain that is needed here'.

I dont like the Paz attitude but it wont stop me from visiting.

I'm starting to wonder why she is fighting this so hard? She is willing to alienate every new resident and visitor in San Pedro and make herself look racist and very undignified, for what? A clock? Maybe there is more at stake than has been made public.

Well..... the person accused of "buying" here is an American.

If you have trouble getting to sleep at nights try counting clocks instead of sheep