To date, the Belize City Council has fully cemented 85 streets. While they've gotten these to completion, there are still streets which are on the last leg, but work has stalled. It's created inconvenience for city residents who want to know what's the hold up? Today, the mayor explained that there are matters happening in the background which the public isn't aware of when it comes to Baymen Avenue, the section of Newtown Barracks near Princess Hotel, and the BTL Park:..
Mayor Darrell Bradley
"The flood mitigation project wants to do a drainage aspect from a canal that's located under Douglas Jones Street and they want to route that canal either through Wilson Street or through Calle Al Mar and then they want to take it out to the sea."
"There is a certain part of the street then that we have to leave so that they could be able to access that. There is a delay in relation to the contractor just bringing the process, but we still have to coordinate with other elements so that when the City Council is doing Baymen Avenue, we have to link that with other projects that are going on in the City. It's not that this is causing us a delay but its a issue that we have to deal with. I have toured BTL Park, I have looked at it, they are making substantial progress. That park will be finish by the first week in December. We are beset 
by rains, we are beset by a lot of other factors for example; parts of the park has to be wired appropriately. A lay person may go and look at the park and say that they see anybody there, so that means nothing is happening. They don't know that work is also happening."
"People may look at a street and they may say that nothing is going on with that street, but you may not know that BWS has not sign off on the street yet. You may not know that a portion of the street has to be left available for another project to go through and all of these things are things that we have to deal with."
"I fully understand that with the recent drainage, people are taking a lick in terms of the condition of streets. This is why we have embarked on the infrastructure project and this is why we've completed 86 streets to date. Completing the remaining amounts and even going further it's a time intensive process. It's not something that we can snap our fingers and we will get it done. I understand that those streets are taking a long time but they are taking a long time because of issues beyond our control."
According to Bradley, City Hall expects to meet the 100 street goal by the end of November, a month early.
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