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Yohny Rosado, cavetubing.com
"Allegations are one of my guys went to cave tubing when the cave was closed. One guy Jimmy Cortez could fight 10 employees of NICH. They have park rangers there. How my Jimmy would beat up 8 park rangers. They have 8 of them living in 2 houses."

Jules Vasquez
"You are saying if they were serious, these people should have prevented him from doing the tour."

Yohny Rosado, cavetubing.com
"They were supposed to be there. There were no park ranges. They were no sign. Jimmy saw the caves and Jimmy went cave tubing. When they came out back, they say he went when the cave were closed. They were sleeping, they were partying. I don't know what they were doing, but there were no park rangers when Jimmy got there and Jules, be real, where do you go and you get suspended from a job without a hearing? What kind of country we live in. Jimmy will never go to the caves if there are park rangers and caves are closed. He went there, the river was fine, the tourist were okay. When they came out of the caves, they say' oh you will get suspended.' What kind of law NICH have to suspend and fire and let someone stop making money in a critical year like this where we can't make money."

Jules Vasquez
"How long are they suspended for?"

Yohny Rosado, cavetubing.com
"Indefinite. Not 1-2 weeks, the paper say indefinite. This thing ya di get so silly I have proof where the park rangers are stealing from us, the guides, and the tour operators and from NICH. I have proof. On each given day you take an amount of people and they tell you Mr Rosado you gwen have $300 fi wee. Bwai how come bwai? We let some people gone een. Bwai we noh do that so, we have to pay NICH; we have to pay Belmopan. They give we wah paypa how much people the bus bring, how much they write."

"It's because I don't pay them then they have a grudge against me. "I will show him a lesson."

Jules Vasquez
"All you have here is a paypa. I'm saying, do you have independent evidence fi suggest that they are deliberately miscounting the amount of heads you have?"

Yohny Rosado, cavetubing.com
"It's very easy to prove. NICH have a record. I'll tell you this, when you do business, if I send someone to Habet and Habet to purchase 20 pieces of pipe, they give you an invoice and the invoice tell that you each pipe cost so much and the boss always get a copy of what you paying for. At NICH they don't give you a copy, they just keep one copy and that's for them. They're supposed to give me one and tell me what they're charging every day."

Marisol Amaya, reporter
"Well, take a picture."

Yohny Rosado, cavetubing.com
"No we're doing business, Marisol . We're doing business. In business you don't take pictures. That's why I told them write it down for me. You won't tell me words no more, give me what you are charging me for I need to write down on piece of paper."

NICH flatly rejects his claims of corruption or a conspiracy to ensnare his guides. They say that Rosado's operator was suspended because he took a group to the park when in was closed due to flooding. NICH says that when the caves are CLOSED notices are sent out to all operators via email, and it is also posted on Facebook and Twitter. NICH says it must ensure the safety of visitors as well as park rangers.