Today the Belize City council and the Caribbean Shores area rep teamed up to unveil the recently rehabilitated Dolphin Park. Jomarie Lanza reports:

After two years, with the help of the Community Development Fund, and a collaborative effort between the Belize City Council and the Area representative for Caribbean Shores, Dolphin Park was brought back to life, and beautified. - restoring residents with a family friendly environment to relax and socialize. Minister Musa shared more about the project he says is close to his heart.

Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores
"So dolphin park is a project that is very near and dear to me. If you know dolphin park there has been a lot of beach erosion that took place between 2015 and 2020. And since then what we started off doing is to reclaim the area because the water was all the way actually to the middle of the park and so there was a reclamation process that we had to start with first and thereafter we had to put boulders in the sea to prevent further erosion. It had been a project that took us two years gradually with assistance from the community development fund that we receive each month being able to put different things in place. Lights the dolphin park signs the palapas the pergolas and then of course the Belize city council has been a huge partner in this helping us with the booth as well as some of the swing and park playground sets so it was a long time coming but we are truly grateful for this day to be able to reopen dolphin park today."

The completion of this project would not be possible without the City Council's engagement. Mayor Wagner highlighted some of the works carried out on the councils behalf

Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City
"It was a collaborative effort between the city and the area representative, minister Kareem Musa, to really rehabilitate the Dolphin park space. It was ravaged by hurricane Lisa we had severe erosion and so we felt that we needed to do some measure of retrofitting to meet the impact of climate change as you can see some of the waters have been reinforced with boulders we put in a beach volleyball area there where people in the Caribbean shores and outside Caribbean shores could come on a weekend and play some volleyball with the kids have a safe space and really unwind."

"The constituency, Caribbean shores do have a development fund that is allocated to them through the national government on a monthly basis and so along with that and the Belize city council putting in the necessary labor we essentially help with the labor costs ensuring that we our workers put some time in the rehabilitation efforts."