And while the waters are descending on the west - they still have not receded in the Albion Islands of the north - and now - those areas are facing another wave of flooding.
But when the village of Douglas flooded along with the "Albions", the PM criticized residents for choosing to stay and live in a flood prone area, stating quote, "They expect the government to help them, it's not fair to Belizean tax payers to go out every year to go out and bail out." End quote.
So does that also go for the people in Bullet Tree and Paslow falls, who experience similar flooding whenever the river rises. We asked the PM today whether he would suggest they should move from the area like those in Douglas. Here's how he responded.
John Briceno, Prime Minister
"I don't think that they are as bad as Douglas, I mean Douglas is a particular case that every year pretty much every year they get flooded, bullet tree and some of these other areas is just when you have these excessive rains and thankfully it's not happening every year but it is something that we also have to take into consideration when we are building when we are working with the communities to ensure that not because the land looks pretty it's adequate especially that climate change is upon us we have to understand that the weather patterns have changed the way it rains have changed at one point you know you have a moderate rain for an hour or two or it goes on for much longer but it's not that heavy showers you get for an hour or two sometimes you have two or three inches of water in an hour or two hours and the culverts we have are not designed to be able to take that amount of water so we have to start to think about climate change and the reality we are facing especially here in the Caribbean and Central America and Belize certainly being no exception."
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