Gales Point Residents Demand Public Bus Service Restoration

Nestled between Belize City and Dangriga, Gales Point Village faces a serious transportation crisis. Residents like Kevin Andrewin have been left without access to a public bus service. They continue to struggle to commute since the bus that once connected them to Dangriga and Belize City stopped running after a highway upgrade.

Village Chairman, Jason Altschaft, explained that despite a newly paved Coastal Highway, no bus operator has resumed the route. Although a former operator expressed interest, politics and profitability concerns halted progress. He said, “We had somebody that was doing the bus run when it was a dirt road and he was preparing to do it when it became a paved road, but unfortunately politics changed and therefore he didn’t get the – didn’t get the contract. The man that did it – tried a few days here and there, but he found that it wasn’t going to be profitable for him to drive his bus down there.”

Minister of Transport, Rodwell Ferguson, assured that efforts are underway to find an operator willing to take on the route, though no applications have been submitted yet.