Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Caribbean tour hit a snag right out of the gate, after Belizean locals protested the couple’s plans to land a helicopter in their village before touring a cacao farm
, Indian Creek village has been in “open conflict” with FFI, “which owns an adjoining, contested property.”
The publication noted that discontent comes in the “context of ongoing agitation… about the meaning of consent in the context of communal land rights. Those rights to lands were expunged in the colonial period by the British.”, FFI said it had acquired the contested land from a private party last winter but is committed to “open and continuous dialogue” with locals.
, “We don’t want them to land on our land, that’s the message that we want to send. They could land anywhere but not on our land.”: “Prince William stop helping FFI [take] our land.” Even without the cacao tour, the royal couple’s Caribbean trip is expected to continue apace. They were slated to arrive over the weekend in Belize, followed by a meeting with the country’s prime minister.