And Shyne Barrow says its Government's fault for the power capacity crisis that's troubling the entire nation tonight.
Load shedding continued today with the entire downtown area of Belize City - including this studio - getting a three hour outage while maintenance works were done.There was also an outage in Cayo at the same time.
The stability of the power supply remains precarious tonight - as Mexico's CFE is not available until tomorrow and BEL does not have enough in-country capacity to keep the country electrified.
Today, the leader of the opposition said it's the government's fault:
Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"And it is no coincidence that we are here in blackout. It is appalling and completely deplorable that we have reached this position. For the life of me, I cannot comprehend, fathom, appreciate. Why an administration that claims to be so ahead of the curve, whose scambelize manifesto actually talked about energy security, who borrowed 155 million dollars from the Saudis last year, would not be ahead of this?"
"So for us to be here now with John Mencias, the CEO of BEL, saying, well, you know, for 10 years we knew that we had this problem, but no one did anything is absolutely deplorable. It is devastating to the health sector, to the tourism sector, to the economy, which is driven by our tourism, and someone needs to be held accountable."
"Again, I appreciate Mr. Mencias' honesty, but someone needs to be fired. Someone needs to be held accountable. What has Michel Chebat been doing since he took on the portfolio at PUC?"
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