| Minister Says All Hands On Deck To Solve Energy Crisis |
| Fri, May 3, 2024 |
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| And this energy crisis is happening during the tourism high season, so while the Briceno government boasts about the increase in numbers, those same tourists will be leaving Belize hot, sweaty, and with a bitter taste in their mouths. Minister Musa said that both BEL and the government are working to ensure that this issue is resolved - and hopefully never happens again - but is it a bit too late?
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"I guess you could say we are victims of our own success because our tourism product is doing exceptionally well at this time and I think that our energy usage, it was predicted that in 2028, we would be reaching around the levels we are now and so that certainly in greater consumption and as a result, I'm sure that BEL will be taking requisite action to ensure that our Belizean population has energy."
Courtney Menzies:
"But it's too little too late, we're dealing with this now, we're dealing with the load shedding, and this was born ten years ago when BEL should have implemented some sort of mechanism so that we could start producing our own energy."
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"Yeah we do produce our own energy, there are alternative sources of energy as you know in the country, it's just that perhaps they did not predict that Mexico would be having an issue with their load as well and therefore could not supply us with the additional energy that we needed."
Courtney Menzies:
"Shouldn't we be able to produce our own energy to [supply] the entire country?"
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"That has been a work in progress and you can be assured that that is the objective of the government at this time."
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