Benque Market
The Benque Town Council has been successful in obtaining support and funding from Government of Belize and a grant from the European Union under the Belize Rural Development Project II to build a new market. The market has opened since December 2014 at the corner of Kennedy and Wyatt Streets.
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Municipal Development Project
The objective of the Municipal Development Project is to improve access to basic municipal infrastructure and to enhance municipal management in selected town and city councils of Belize. Benque Town Council has worked on creating the plan since 2010.
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Benque Archaeological Site Conservation Project
The Institute of Archaeology (IA), a branch of the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) and Benque Viejo Town Council has jointly submitted a project proposal for the U. S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation 2014 program for Conservation of the Benque Archaeological Site and successfully obtained the grant $55,000 USD. The
excavation is going to start in April 2015.
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