As justification for the fine, he present me the CUSTOMS REGULATION ACT CHAPTER 49 PART II #12 (1) :

“The master of every ship arriving within the waters of Belize from parts beyond the seas laden or in ballast and bound to any place in Belize shall before touching at or having communication either directly or indirectly with any place within Belize other than a port, proceed to a port in Belize, and shall within twenty-four hours after arrival at such port personally appear at the Custom House at such port, unless prevented from doing so by reason of illness or of his ship being in quarantine, in which case the agent of the ship shall act in his behalf, and there make a report and manifest in writing in the form of the First Schedule containing the several particulars indicated in or required thereby, or in such form as the Comptroller shall from time to time prescribe, and shall make and subscribe a declaration to the truth thereof before the Comptroller or other proper officer, and the master shall further answer all such questions concerning the ship and the cargo and the passengers, crew and the voyage as are required of him by such officer, and if he refuses to answer or does not answer truly the questions required of him, or fails to make due report, or if the particulars or any of them contained in such report is false, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.”

From my point of view, this article don’t match with my case because it’s about form filled in Belize and question ask by Belize authorities. It’s not about what is on the previous clearance as he pretend that I gave wrong information about my trip.
Sincerely, that’s appear to me totally abusive, unfair and specially on the way he treat me. He was intimidating me by rising the voice, being reluctant to provide me a justification for the fine, refusing to clearly describe the nature of the fine on the receipt. In additional of that I had to make corrected twice by the Custom Officer the Belize Ship Report form he asked me to sign : first he put the wrong previous port (Roatan Honduras instead of Livingston Guatemala), secondly not the good kind of rig (catamaran instead of sloop or simply sailing vessel), then he totally refuse to correct a missing “a” at the end of Guatemala (after an 100 USD fine for my unexpected stop here I was afraid that he could fine me because “Guatemal” don’t exist).

Clearance in San Pedro :
– immigration boarding fees (actually I went to their office, they didn’t board me) : 100 Belize $
– 20 USD by person immigration exige fees
– 100 Belize $ custom exit boarding fees (again, that’s me who board their office…)

Actually, I get the 20 USD by person because I start to complaint about the first 100 Belize $, they call an agent from nowhere, who arrive with 2 receipts pretending that the exist fees and don’t know anything about the boarding fees.

Then after complaining in custom about my fine, because there is still no legal justification for it, please read the text, the supervisor, after seeing my letter to the headquarters made me understand that if I leave the office now, we are done so I didn’t paid the presumed exit boarding fees.

I sent a letter to the French Consul in Belize and to many secretary of minister.

My conclusion is that everybody should AVOID Belize until they solve their corruption problem.