Dredging to Take Place in Lagoon to Access Terminal

Daniel Guerrero

News Five has been reliably informed that the dredging of the lagoon will cost almost two million Belize dollars to be completed and if local water taxis do not use the facility, the project will be deemed a white elephant. Currently, the operators have been docking at their own piers to the front of the island. It is known that one operator has already purchased prime property with the intention to build its own terminal on the beach front. That project, says Mayor Daniel Guerrero, does not have the support of the council.

Daniel Guerrero, Mayor, San Pedro

“All I know they are using the municipal dock at the moment and just recently we heard that the company that owns San Pedro Belize Express purchased what is known as Rubi’s Hotel and they are planning to make it their terminal there. And definitely the council is completely against [that] and we are going to stand firm on that. We believe that they need to go to the back and that’s why government invested seven point odd million dollars in that project. So that project needs to be used and that’s where they need to go. It’s not if they want, but they have to go. We have met and just recently I received an email from them and a company that wants to do a huge concrete dock with different departments like waiting room, cafeteria and the whole works and it is a big no from the council. To the front of the island and so I know that my council is definitely against.”

Guerrero says that before the end of the year, he will work to see the lagoon dredged so that local water taxis can use the facility.