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Belmopan Was Battered Too
posted (October 28, 2010)
Belmopan, it's that shining city on a hill that's supposed to be invulnerable to storms…well, think again - as raging Richard clobbered the capital.

Regrettably because of our own storm damages we have not been able to make it up their for our own assessment but we put this mini report together with the help of the press office and a partner with a mini camera:

In the garden city known for its verdant green areas, downed trees were everywhere, so were leaning lamp-posts and zinc lifted like sheets of paper from roofs.

On other homes the zinc was curled up while on some it was gone altogether. Even Belize house - the home of the head of state the grounds looked tossed about.

All the damage gave the area representative John Saldivar and the mayor Simeon Lopez, who are not known to get along, a chance to team up with the mayor of Benque Viejo Nick Ruiz and his team for a cleanup:

Nicholas Ruiz, Mayor of Benque Viejo
"We have our councilors, workers, the transport department is here and we have some volunteers at large from the community who just wanted to come and it just came together."

Simeon Lopez, Mayor of Belmopan
"It was a disaster, it was terrible. This clean-up will be for a long time so it will take us a long time to do this clean-up and to start to do the restoration of Belmopan."

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