Belmopan City Came to Clean Up Belize City

Today, Belmopan Mayor Sheran Palacio and a team of fifty city council employees alighted a Floralia bus in Belize City and picked up shovels, rakes and garbage bags to clean up parks and other areas of the city that Hurricane Lisa had affected. The team also cleared three areas of fallen debris left behind by the hurricane two weeks ago. It was their way of lending support to Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner, and for Mayor Palacio, it came in stride and also one week before Belmopan will get the same level of attention for its hurricane clean-up.

Sheran Palacio

Sheran Palacio, Mayor, Belmopan

“You can see we have several of our employees here. We call it Operation Compassion and it’s quite exciting.”

Marion Ali

“So you brought your own truck and your own workers?”

Sheran Palacio

“The truck is for here. We brought our own workers.”

Marion Ali

“And they came on board a bus.”

Sheran Palacio

“We came on a very expensive bus – Floralia, I don’t know how to say it properly, and they are parked by the Civic and then to move around the city we got a little bus given to us by the City Council.”

Marion Ali

“So you’re doing just parks today? How many are you doing?”

Sheran Palacio

“Okay, we have this park and we have some other park by the name of Fiesta and then half of our group is over on Saint Thomas area, Sixth Street and they were just going down that way. And next week Tuesday, the same thing we’re doing here we will do in our city. Our city is in need of a lot. So if we could get all these trucks and all these – however you call them – backhoe and so on, you can take them to Belmopan. We’d be happy too.”

Marion Ali

“You guys suffered hurricane as well?”

Sheran Palacio

“Oh yes. We have a lot of fallen trees, our debris is a lot but not insurmountable. We’ll be able to get to our debris day by day and get Belmopan back to where we want it.”