Since last week, we’ve been reporting on how the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated Belizeans who make their living off the tourism industry. Suddenly, many of them don’t have a job because all international travel has been shut down.
As the COVID-19 threat increases, there will more Belizeans who won’t be able to pay their bills. And so, a popular sentiment that is emerging on social media is that the utility companies should give customers a break until the pandemic has run its course.
This afternoon, Belize Electricity Limited called a press conference to alert the public about their plan to keep the lights on, as well as to make the point that they can’t stop charging you for the electricity that your households consume.
The company says that it spends 15.5 million dollars every month to purchase power to feed the national grid, and those bills have to be paid. Here’s how top managers explained it today:
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