Switching now to news of a more celebratory nature.
with carnival only a week away, there's been an uproar after this carnival notice was posted on Facebook, stating that there would be no parking and no vending allowed along the carnival route.
We asked the mayor today about the severity of the notice and he cleared some things up for us.
Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City
"But there is no issue there, vending is allowed there is no issue there no vending will be on the street where the carnival is taking place but we have areas off street that vendors will be allowed to sell."
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"Has these areas been specified or is it like only a certain zone?"
Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City
"No I would suggest that they contact our Pr department in that respect but we have a lot of reserved areas in the city along that stretch and vending will be allowed on the areas that are not on the exact street that the carnival so take for instance princess Margaret drive you will have one side of the street being utilized by the carnival so the other side off the street would be allowed for vending."
"I think it was just communication and if you have an issue and you don't understand our communication directly you call the city council and get that information. We have to get out from this get on social media and start to rant and rave there are ways how you go about discussing these issues and we never said there would be no vending we said that on the route on the exact street that the carnival is being held you can't vend."
