{"id":81580,"date":"2026-02-09T19:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/?p=81580"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:21:18","slug":"new-water-system-for-san-estevan-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/new-water-system-for-san-estevan-village\/","title":{"rendered":"New Water System for San Estevan Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Just days after rural Orange Walk villages finally got reliable electricity, another essential service is getting a major upgrade, this time, it\u2019s water. In San Estevan, the Ministry of Rural Transformation rolled in with new water\u2011system expansion materials and backup power equipment designed to keep taps running and connect even more homes to the network. The package includes high\u2011grade pipes to push the system farther and a heavy\u2011duty diesel generator to keep water flowing even when the power goes out. Prime Minister John Brice\u00f1o and Minister Oscar Requena joined village leaders for the handover, underscoring the government\u2019s commitment to making sure rural communities get the same dependable services as the rest of the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81518\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81518\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-09-18h43m16s097-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister John Brice\u00f1o\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-09-18h43m16s097-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-09-18h43m16s097-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-09-18h43m16s097-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-09-18h43m16s097-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-09-18h43m16s097-1300x731.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-09-18h43m16s097.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Prime Minister John Brice\u00f1o<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Prime Minister John Brice\u00f1o<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTheres so many things\u200athat we in the urban areas, like in Orange Walk Town and in Belize City that we take for granted that you do not have in the villages, and we want to ensure that the villages also have the very same opportunities and the services that we all have. That is why we decided that we don&#8217;t want to call the ministry rural development, but rural transformation because we are transforming the lives of our people. And because of that kind of leadership that we&#8217;ve had, again, like in the Ministry of Rural Transformation with Minister Requena and CEO Shal, we have been seeing a lot of work being done in the rural areas of this country from expansions of water, of electricity of roads, of streets, of land, of assistance to our people in agriculture, trying to help them finding different markets. Looking at schools and community centers and clinics. That is what this team -This team have been a transformative team actually. And with the work that they have been doing. And just a few weeks ago, they also presented for the first time ever a national strategy for rural transformation.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after rural Orange Walk villages finally got reliable electricity, another essential service is getting a major upgrade, this time, it\u2019s water. In San Estevan, the Ministry of Rural Transformation rolled in with new water\u2011system expansion materials and backup power equipment designed to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":81520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[449,450,444,475,474],"tags":[10575,10600],"class_list":["post-81580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-latest-news","category-news","category-people-places","tag-2026-02-09","tag-new-water-system-for-san-estevan-village"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81581,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81580\/revisions\/81581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}