San Carlos Road Upgrade Kicks Off with $1.19 Million Program

A ceremony to sign the Resilient Rural Belize Program took place this morning in San Carlos Village, Orange Walk District. The event was attended by Abelardo Mai, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security, and Enterprise, and other officials from the Ministry of Rural Transformation, Community Development, Labour, and Local Government, A&N Construction. 

The program, managed by the Ministry of Economic Development, focusses on upgrading San Carlos Road, which spans 3.07 miles. The initiative aims to enhance farmers’ access, enabling them to produce and transport food and vegetables more efficiently, and to support the tourism industry by supplying produce to this sector.

The project is valued at 1.19 million Belize dollars. Minister Abelardo Mai stated, “We’ve reached the point where we cannot continue to produce more and more and more, and have losses. so we are looking now at another step, industrialising the sector.” He added, “this road, essentially, will help the farmers tremendously,” making their products “healthier, wholesome, it will reduce your cost of transportation to Belize City.”