OPINION: Belize’s Persistent and Silent Electricity Emergency
By Amb. F. Daniel Gutierez Early in the morning 4 days before we celebrated our 40th anniversary as an independent nation, the Commision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) in Mexico had to undertake maintenance on their own power system to which we are tethered as a nation, and just like that, lights out in Belize. Now let me be clear, this type of maintenance is expected in grid systems and I am imputing no untoward reasons for CFE leaving us in the dark. These things happen. Not