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And, of course, the Prime Minister meant no harm by his statement - and the Foreign Minister said yesterday that he has been working tirelessly to de-escalate the tension to prevent any possible violence. But was his work disrupted by the PM comments?
And though the PM warned the BTV about movements on the Belize side of the Sarstoon, he and his party set a precedent during their own trip 7 years ago.
Courtney Menzies went back to 2016, and took a look at that trip:
John Briceno, Prime Minister
"Right now, the Starstoon River is on a hair trigger and the slightest disturbance could send things in a most unfortunate direction. The two most recent trips that the BTV made last month were met with hostilities from the Guatemalan armed forces, who insisted that it was their territory. And yesterday the PM urged BTV to play it safe and not antagonise the Guatemalans because it would be a war we would likely not win."
"We need to be realistic. We have about a thousand soldiers. Guatemala has probably about 19, 20,000. They have gunships. They have. They have all the latest equipment and technology still to go to war. And we do not. We also need to be to be a bit careful. And I say that hesitantly. I say that, for instance, if you have a bull, a wild bull in your land, you're not going to go and jump up in front of it and wave a flag because it's going to attack you. What you need to do is to see where you could pin the bull and how you could deal with it. I use that as an analogy to make the point that we also can't be seen to be taunting the Guatemalans because God forbid, one day one of these people were to accidentally pull the trigger or whatever. Then what?"
But in 2016, when the PM was then the Opposition Leader. Was he doing the same thing he warned against when his party made a trip to the Starstoon. At that time tensions were high between the GAF and the BDF and there was a level of anticipated hostility. Still, the PUP took the risk and ventured down south. But the trip went smoother than the BTV's last visit, perhaps because Briceno informed the then PM ahead of time about their plan.
But is Briceno inadvertently creating a problem when he said that if Belize had the military might. It may be us who would be invading Guatemala.
John Briceno, Prime Minister
"I'm urging them to be careful. I mean they take children out there sometimes and God forbid something were to happen, what? What are we going to do? We can't invade Guatemala. As much as we'd like to but we can't."
And since history shows that a leader has never made such a suggestion, we are left to wait and see how the statement will be interpreted by the Guatemalan government.
