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CITCO Back To The Drawing Board On Southern Foreshore
posted (March 5, 2013)
The City Council is celebrating its one year anniversary - we'll tell you about that shortly - but first we look to the downside of what ahs been the Hallmark of that one year in office: those concrete streets, dozens of them!

But, as we pointed out a few weeks ago - the streets are supposed to last for decades, yet some of them have proved to be substandard. In fact, right now, a section of the street on southern foreshore is being ripped up and re-done. The mayor says the city council has staffed itself with three engineers and is now demanding a higher standard of proof from contractors:



Darrell Bradley - Mayor, Belize City Council
"We are monitoring our contractors very vigilantly. They're giving us regular reports. We're requiring PSI testing of all our streets so that we know the PSI and strength, that it's going to last. And where we find deficiencies, even if it is something arguable, we will require the contractors to go in and do corrective work. We've seen corrective works done along Freetown road. They're doing corrective works along Southern Foreshore as you pointed out. They did corrective works along Evergreen Street which is behind B.W.S. So whenever we are unsatisfied with the quality we received, we will make sure that those people fix whatever we want. Or they will not receive there retention payments."

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