A heavy downpour this afternoon in Belize City dropped as many as 3 inches of rain in a few hours, pushing drains to the overflow mark, and flooding city streets. And those that aren't paved have become a mess of mud.
That is the reality of city residents, but for those in Freetown, they've been grappling with unpaved streets for decades. Specifically, St Peter's and St James have been graded over and over, but is there hope seeing them paved? We asked the area rep.
Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education
"Infrastructure work is never done, it's an ongoing challenge, I wish we could have a greater degree of budgetary allocation to deal with streets, we get some deep support from the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and the Belize City Council but it's never enough. And of course as you all know, whenever it rains, it's back to square one because we can't, we don't have the resources or material to permanently fix these streets so it's an ongoing challenge and believe me, as I've represented Freetown for more than 20 years, I'm sure the largest chunk of our budget in terms of Freetown has gone to infrastructure work and we will continue to work very closely with the Ministry of Infrastructure and City Council to address the streets in Freetown."
