Hurricane Ernesto spared Belize and the damage to infrastructure was minimal but NEMO reports that the agricultural sector experienced losses of 763 thousand dollars.
Corn, sugar, cane, papaya and plantain were damaged.
The greatest damage is to papaya crops where 23 acres in Fruta Bomba and Little Belize were damaged. The value of the combined losses is 695 thousand dollars.
592 persons went into shelters in countrywide, 314 of them in Corozal.
NEMO reports that 911 persons voluntarily evacuated San Pedro and Caye Caulker.
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