Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City
"Our city emergency management organization works very closely with NEMO and the MET office and we're closely monitoring the track of this system here. But we stand ready as a city, we hope it never comes to fruition, we never want to be impacted by any hurricane or disaster because the fact is that it really sets you back as a country and especially as a municipality, it has it's own struggles."

"We have done some work and you have seen it, MIDH, I must commend them for putting some work on the highways coming into the city. We are still getting the sort of resources we need to rehabilitate those streets but it doesn't make sense that you go and fix streets right now and by weekend a lot of rain come again so you have to hold on, people have to have a little patience, exercise patience, and we get things done together."

We'll have the latest from NEMO tomorrow. We have been asking them to comment on the system for days.