2014 has been a terrible year for road traffic fatalities - which in an unfortunate coincidence, is happening at the same time that government is rolling out the Road Safety programme. But adversity presents opportunity, and the road safety unit is reaching out to teens and young adults as peer educators - to teach their contemporaries about the hazards of reckless driving. The first day of the two-week training session facilitated by international experts was held yesterday at the George Price Center in Belmopan. We found 
out how it works:
Crispin Jeffries, Chief Transport Officer
"We believe this workshop have selected the young persons we believe that will be able to deliver a road safety training to young persons across the country."
Floyd Sutton, Director - YOURS
"We are going to train 18 youth leaders from Belize to be youth advocate and to be peer educators. These new trainers they will go out into the schooling systems and community centers to reach in total 2,000 young people to spread the message in a youth friendly way about alcohol during driving and on speeding and distracted driving."
Juan Cal, Journalist
"That is why I applied for this YOURS training because I believe that I can go back to my community, to the people, especially to the young people because we are the ones right now that are very vulnerable at the moment when it comes to road accidents."
This is the first time the programme is being piloted in this region.
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