[1] Quinto, a businessman and a People's United Party supporter, by the early 1980s had long been acquainted with Said Musa, who was a legal consultant for his company.
At that point, Belize only had three overseas missions, in London, Washington DC, and at the United Nations in New York City; Musa, who by then had become Minister of Foreign Affairs, told Quinto that if he did not go to Taipei to fill the position of ambassador, there would be no one else to take the job, and thus he went.
[1] Soon after Quinto arrived in Taipei, UDP politician Dean Barrow began promoting Belize's citizenship by investment program, which led to some strain in relations when the ROC decided to impose visa requirements on Belizean passport holders in response.
[3] Quinto is of Chinese descent; his father migrated to Belize in the early 20th century, and got his start as an importer of dry goods before switching to the more profitable tobacco and alcohol, in which he made his fortune.
[6] Another son, William, studied at Dulles High School in Sugar Land, Texas, and lived in a two-story mansion with a wrap-around balcony and an indoor pool which his father owned there; one time while his father was away, he held a party there which ended up getting raided by police; the incident provoked local political attention because the son of ex-mayor Dean A. Hrbacek had attended.