Bullet Tree Road to be Paved

The nine-and-a-half-mile stretch of road from Bullet Tree Village to the Spanish Lookout Community is scheduled to be paved. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Friday in Santa Familia Village.

The road is critical as it is used by farmers to transport livestock, grains, and other produce.

According to Cayo Northeast Area Representative Orlando Habet, over half of Belize’s cattle exports to Guatemala pass through this route. “All the corn and all the beans exported pass through this road. When we have flooding events, it is important, because apart from those commodities, we have chicken, egg, beef, milk, ice cream, you name it—all the food items that have to pass through here when the lower-lying bridges are closed. So, it is important.”

The paving project is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and the Spanish Lookout Community. According to Julius Espat, the Minister of Infrastructure Development, this public-private partnership has enabled the project to bypass bureaucratic delays. “It is the Spanish Lookout community coming together with the government and financing the project to make it work. It was one of the ways we found to fast-track the bureaucratic way of doing road construction.”

Cayo North Area representative Michel Chebat described the project as phase one of Plan Belize. “This is just another example of that commitment to making people’s lives better under Plan Belize. This is Plan Belize phase one, because in a few months we are going to have phase two of Plan Belize.”

The paving of the road is expected to be completed within 18 months.