The new route for this year's Carnival Road March was confirmed last week. It was designed to alleviate traffic and health risks along the entrances to both major highways as well as the KHMH.
This weekend the Belize Carnival Association along with members of the Belize City Council conducted a practice run along the new route to make sure that there weren't any problems. The City held a press conference today to clarify any outstanding details. Here's what they had to say.
Phillip Willoughby - Belize City Councillor
"Basically we drove the route again, which is Caesar Ridge Road, Central American Boulevard, right into Vernon Street, left into BelChina Bridge onto Douglas Jones, though Cinderella Plaza onto Kelly Street, Baymen Avenue, Princess Margaret Drive. What the council will be doing, and I apologize for my colleague, BQ PItts, who isn't here and Councillor Cuellar, a flyer will be distributed along the route to notify the residents of the new route, carnival route, and to ask them not to have their vehicles parked along the carnival route. That's one. Secondly we look forward to all those who will be conducting any business along the route to kindly contact the council, or the carnival commission to deal with those matters as they arise."
Carnival DJ's have also been advised not to stack their sound systems too high so that they do not run the risk of hitting any high tension wires along the new route.
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