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| BDF Soldiers To Dominica | | Thu, October 12, 2017 | | 
For the past three weeks, we have been reporting on the Caribbean island nation of Dominica which was devastated by the Hurricane, Maria's 185 mile an hour winds, which flattened the island's infrastructure, and caused 27 deaths.
They're on a very long road to recovery, and any assistance they can get is needed. So, that's why the Belize Defense Force is sending a company of Belize soldiers to help in the rebuilding efforts.
Defense Ministry CEO Felix Enriquez told the Government Press Office outlined the intended deployment:
Rt. Lt. Felix Enriquez, CEO - Ministry of Defense
"One of the various partnerships that we are heavily involved with in the region is disaster relief and in that effort the Belize Defence Force and through the Ministry of Defense is sending a platoon of light engineers to Dominica to assist with the reconstruction. As you all know that country has been badly devastated recently by Hurricane Irma and so Belize is sending a platoon of light engineers and they will be deployed hopefully within the next week for a period of 2 months to construction roofs and housing reconstruction in Dominica as part of the regional security system that Belize is a part of."
"Initially the request from the RSS was for security and because of various initiatives that were coming, not just from Belize, from other countries of the RSS. That has been addressed. If they do need security troops afterwards, perhaps we would consider it. However, what they need now is assistance with the reconstruction efforts and the light engineers which is within the Belize Defence Force, has been developed with our partnership with the US and Canada. Again thanks to the efforts of our partners are here today. They are equip fully to deploy and we've been asked to deploy and so we will."
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