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Territorial Volunteers Reject Government & OAS Account
Tue, March 3, 2015
We also showed you last night how the Government had a stern putdown for the Belize Territorial Volunteers.

For accuracy, a press release addressing the "detention" of the 37 Belizeans said, quote,

"Official reports furnished to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the OAS reveal that the same group which organized this weekend's excursion had exactly one year ago planted palms on the wrong side of the border."

They are referring to the trip that the northern Volunteers, led by Orlando De La Fuente, organized to visit the Aguas Turbias Border marker. At that time, part of the cleaning efforts by the volunteers was to plant coconut palms to note that part of the clearing was for Belize.

In response today, the founder of the Territorial Volunteers, Wil Maheia, sent out a scathing press release. It says quote, "The Belize Territorial Volunteers completely denies the lie told in the recent Government ...Press Release..."

Instead of defending Belizeans going about their lawful business, they declared that the BTV had on an earlier visit planted palms on the Guatemalan side of the border. This is completely untrue. During this exercise the BTV had the services of experienced surveyors equipped with state of the art GPS.

In the unlikely event that any of the leaders of this country could actually be bothered to travel to the borders to see for themselves, they would realise that this is a falsehood put about by the Organisation of American States. The OAS yet again shows itself to be no friend to Belizeans." End Quote

In the press release Maheia is quoted as saying, "The BTV would also like to point out that had Belizeans by accident planted palms in Guatemala, Guatemala should be thankful, as their country is like a wasteland in comparison to Belize - which is why they have ambitions to steal this land away from those to whom it will always belong - the people of Belize."

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