You might also recall that the Belize Tourism Industry Association won a lawsuit against Norwegian Cruise Line and the Government of Belize. The Supreme Court ruled that the Government's environmental technicians took shortcuts to fast track the Harvest Caye project.
So, we asked the NCL Senior Vice President if any other shortcuts were taken during the construction which could compromise the fragile environment that this cruise port occupies. Here's how that back and forth went:
Daniel Ortiz
"Can you assure the Belizean public that in the scope of the Harvest Caye project that Norwegian did not skirt any of the environmental issues when it was constructed?"
Colin Murphy, V.P., Destination Development, NCL
"Yes."
Daniel Ortiz
"Is there any elaboration on that?"
Colin Murphy, V.P., Destination Development, NCL
"Well you know I'm tempted to elaborate on the BTIA case and the result of the BTIA case. I think there were 5 issues that they filed for; 3 of them I think I may have missed, I think Mr. Krohn knows better than me, but a certain number of those were kicked out by the judge, didn't get to court. 2 got to court, one was kicked out, and from memory it was something like, because we didn't put the name Belize on the holdings on the bottom of the advertisement or something like that. They were very inconsequential things. Look, we're a world class company, our standards will be far higher than many of the resorts that exist already in Belize City so we've been over that many times. Thank you for the question, anybody else?"
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