CitCo Reiterates, “No parking along Carnival Route”

In addition to CitCo’s announcement that no vending will be allowed along the carnival route, City Hall also announced that parking on the streets or sidewalks along the route is also forbidden. Mayor Wagner explains that despite the tradition of tailgating to view the parade, it is a public safety hazard and cannot be allowed. Here’s what he had to say.

 

Britney Gordon

“Sir, in regards to the no parking rule, so people that park their cars and sit in the back of it to watch, that won’t be allowed at all. People that are in the back of their pickup trucks, none of that, that either?”

 

Bernard Wagner, Mayor, Belize City

“We have to do these things here with order. People da Belize, we tend to like disorder. Once there is order, we rant and rave. We love disorder as a community. We’ve got to change our culture. We are saying, listen you can’t have vehicles blocking the road to the carnival. We need the police to be able, law enforcement to be able, Move around in that era pretty freely. So you can’t have vehicles parking along the entire road. The other side where the carnival is not being held have to be cleared because that’s a road for police emergency. So people can come in their vehicle, but they’ll have to find alternative parking along the alternate streets.”