Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The latest embarrassment for the constantly disgraced UDP Belize City Council came this morning when an employee of the Belize Electricity Limited walked up to the its office on North Front Street and cut off their electricity supply.
The BEL employee then went over to the Council's Commercial Centre near the Swing Bridge and did the same, and to the Mile 4 location and repeated the drill.
The bill is said to be somewhere in the vicinity of $30,000, and the quick and fast, and expected, reaction from City Hall was that they were cut out for bills purportedly owing to BEL dating back to 2003 when the PUP were in office. But everyone knows that no one consumes that kind of energy in one month, at least not in Belize, not unless it's a huge multi-purpose company in the business of manufacturing steel or zinc on a mass scale. To make matters worse, City Hall cannot even provide the records to support its claim that the outstanding balance dates back to PUP days.
What is also interesting is that BEL would allow a customer who owes a bill as outstanding as $30,000, to continue to enjoy power supply uninterrupted for eight years! Incredible! Sorry City Hall, try again. Belizeans suffer BEL's wrath and get cut out less three after their due dates to pay bills and for sure, the amount is not even a single-digit fraction of CitCo's bill.
The staff must be commended as they had to work in discomfort until City Hall managed to call BEL and work out payment. Less than an hour later, the same BEL employee showed up to remove the embarrassing red tags off the meters and restore the power supply. The City Council, strapped for cash, despite its millions of dollars in head tax collections from cruise tourism and government subventions, have pledged to pay the bill. At the rate City Hall is going, one is left to ask "What will they mess up next?"
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Source: The Belize Times
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