TV Ramos Road Receives Upgrade in Segments  

Infrastructure work to upgrade the Thomas Vincent Ramos Highway, formerly the Southern Highway, is underway and will proceed over the next several months. Today in the House, the Minister of Infrastructure Development, Julius Espat explained that the project was scheduled to begin in July and will continue until next March. The scope of the works extend from the mile six junction with the Hummingbird Highway to the Hopkins junction. Espat said that after accepting bids, Teichrob and Sons Limited got the contract.

 

Julius Espat, Minister of Infrastructure Development & Infrastructure

“The contract amount is for nine million, five hundred and ninety-five thousand, one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. The distance is sixteen point two kilometers long. It starts from the junction at Dangriga, and it will be completed at the junction in Hopkins. It is the initial stages of the rehabilitation of what we know as the Southern Highway, but the official name is Thomas Vincent Ramos Highway. So this is the first section that we are doing because the roads have experienced damage because now the road is being used by heavier trucks, meaning the trucks that are coming in from the Orange Walk District from BSI and the trucks that are coming in from the Cayo Districts from Santander and other trucks that are using now the port in the south. So this is the first phase of the project we are doing, as I said, from Dangriga to Hopkins, and we will be making additional proposals to the government of Belize to continue from Hopkins to Placencia, then from Placencia to Independence and then from Independence all the way to Punta Gorda. We are doing it by phases, so we’re trying to be as responsible as we possibly can start date is July 2024. Completion date is March 2025.”