Countrywide Plunged Into National Blackout Early in The Evening

Tonight, most of Belize is recovering from a national power outage that enveloped the country at 4:00 pm.

BEL announced that the massive outage was due to a fault at CFE power in Mexico.

At this hour, we can tell you that most communities are back up - with others still coming up. Power was first restored around 5:00 to portions of the Stann Creek and Toledo Districts using local sources. An earlier posting said that power supply is expected to be completely restored to the entire country by 7:00 tonight.