Immediate Response Facility gets funds to fix roads/bridges

Chief trouble spots around the country in times of flooding will be given top priority over the coming weeks. This afternoon, the Ministry of Works assigned contracts after the Inter-American Development Fund provided funding of ten million Belize dollars under a scheme called the Immediate Response Facility. The scope of the work will be to restore those areas that suffered infrastructural damage during Tropical Depression number sixteen in 2008. And Henderson says the work will be so done to allow for decades of use without incident. While there are many bridges that will be addressed, he said road worthiness will also get attention.

Cadet Henderson, C.E.O., Ministry of Works
“In the vicinity of Fabers Road junction going to Belize City on the western highway, there is quite some failure in that area. Major lifting and reconstruction of that area will take place. As well as, mile ten to twelve on the western highway will be upgraded on that road again some of which was damaged by that flooding with all those culverts that were collapsing. In the vicinity of mile one to six on the western highway, we will be installing culverts by a separate contract. Mile twenty-five to twenty-eight on the western highway, again another culvert system. Mile thirty-six at the Jaguar Paw junction. We will be doing significant work in that vicinity, including some line concrete draining on the sides. And in Belama Phase four, we will do street resurfacing, lifting and drainage.”

San Ignacio residents will also be pleased to learn that the low-lying wooden bridge will be repaired. Cristo Rey also recently received a new bridge. A new set of culverts and a bridge will be installed in Santa Familia in Pooks Hill behind Teakettle, while the bridge in More Tomorrow Village will be repaired.