Cruise ship docks without controversy

What a difference a week makes! This morning when a cruise ship dropped anchor in Belize City Harbor there were no protests, no police barricades, no vicious dogs—and if there were any gay men they kept it to themselves. The M.V. Sea Breeze discharged over six hundred passengers on a gloriously beautiful day at the Radisson Fort George Marina. About a hundred and fifty took organized tours to the Maya ruins, rivers, jungles or cayes while four hundred more took their own tours by taxi, walked around town or just hung out by the pool. The hardest working men in town had to be Wilfred Peters and his Boom and Chime Band who kept the crowd well lubricated until they were forced back on the ship this evening. The Sea Breeze, based in Florida, will return in October at which time it will begin weekly visits to Belize which are scheduled to continue through the year two thousand and one.