So now that we are in the dry season it's hard to forget how serious the flooding was all throughout the city during the rainy season. When we brought this up to the mayor today he said that it's true that the city's drainage system can use some fine tuning and they will work on this before the next rainy season.

Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City
"We have cleaned those drains on an annual basis and when you see flooding in the city and you can correct me if I'm wrong but if water doesn't stay there long the water goes away pretty quickly but I agree with you that we still need to fine tune the drainage system in the city and that is part of our agenda for this year to really focus a bit more on drainage ensuring that they are maintained ensuring they are connecting. You can't just have a drain and it connects to nowhere it has to connect to the canals and the canals then feed into the river and the river into the sea we have a pumping station thankfully that really helps us to alleviate flooding in one of those key areas in the downtown Belize city area."