And the man who would be in charge of the Punta Gorda Branch is Wil Maheia. He's an activist on many fronts but primarily as an arch nationalist. He's earned raves for his trips to Jalacte to plant the Belizean Flag - and now he has another border project in mind. He wants to mark the Belizean border and it starts with machetes:..
Wil Maheia - PNP
"One of the things that we will be starting in 3 weeks' time - we have secured 100 machetes. We will begin to clear the border lines ourselves, just like when we started to place the flag it was one of us; two of us. Rufus when you went down there maybe it was 6-10 of us, now its bus loads. We will start to clear that borderline by had with machetes - one machete at a time and we will start from Gracias Adios, up the Sarstoon River and we will begin chopping and we will chop and chop until we get up to the Chiquibul and Caracol. I don't know how long it's going to take but in a couple of weeks we will start chopping along the borderline."
And if you want to see what one area of that border area looks like, tune in on Wednesday when we'll have part two of Janelle Chanona's trip to the Ceibo Chico where she explored the natural wonders of one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Belize.
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