30.6 C
Belize City
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Graduation of Police Recruit Squad #98

Dr. Richard Rosado, Commissioner of Police with...

Belizeans will feel the cost if Middle East war escalates

Satellite picture shows Fordow uranium enrichment facility...

$183.6 mil in losses due to Hurricane Earl

Features$183.6 mil in losses due to Hurricane Earl

BELIZE CITY, Fri. Aug. 26, 2016–The damage wrought by Hurricane Earl, which struck Belize on August 3 and 4, 2016, is now estimated at $183.6 million, according to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who gave a report in Parliament on Friday.

Barrow had previously told the press that individual property losses had been estimated at upwards of $15 million and losses to agriculture and tourism at over $100 million.

In his presentation today, he said that losses to the utility companies—the Belize Telemedia Limited and the Belize Electricity Limited—amounted to an estimated $25 million.

Meanwhile, damage to roads was estimated at $29.4 million.

According to Barrow, 4,684 households were impacted, amounting to an estimated 17,000 persons in the Belize, Cayo, Orange Walk and Stann Creek Districts.

Check out our other content

Rainfall covers villages in OW

Teen killed in altercation with police

Kings Park woman found with drugs

Another girl gone missing

Check out other tags:

International