B.E.L. reports more weekend sabotage

Things are not getting any better at Belize Electricity Limited, as another act of sabotage over the weekend has set back the company’s plans for a return to business as usual. According to a B.E.L. release, at about four-thirty Saturday afternoon a B.D.F. air patrol reported utility poles on fire in an area near San Jose Village in the Orange Walk District. A B.E.L. team was dispatched and found that six poles supporting the one hundred fifteen kilovolt line from Mexico had been cut and burned and were in danger of falling. Emergency supports were installed and a nationwide power outage was averted. B.E.L. says that since January a total of twenty poles have been damaged in acts of sabotage, presumably related to efforts at achieving a change of government. The company has offered a five thousand dollar reward for any information that leads to the arrest and conviction of anyone found damaging B.E.L. property. In a bit of better news, we are informed that the gas turbine power plant at mile eight is now back in operation following repairs, and along with B.E.L.’s ageing diesels and purchases from Mexico, is keeping the juice flowing through the national grid.