And while Citco is busy with electric buses, both the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Tourism have been dealing with the issue of foreign buses - particularly ADO and Fuente Del Norte. The eternal complaint has always been that these buses want to be able to come into the country, but the local operators say they'll scoop up passengers that would otherwise catch the regular buses. However, those foreign buses also bring in tourists who may spend money in Belize.
Yesterday, we asked Minister Rodwell Ferguson for an update on this situation.
Rodwell Ferguson, Minister of Transport
"The Ministry of Tourism is very concerned because these buses bring in tourists. Maybe some may be Caye Caulker, San Pedro, or across the country. And at the land borders, the amount of tourists are being limited because the restrictions that we have on the buses from the west and from the north. I'm arranging a meeting to go and meet the Minister of Tourism in Mexico within a month I believe, it is almost set, and we'll start the negotiations from there and likewise, we don't have the buses in place that the tourists might come across from Guatemala in Mexico, we have to start negotiate both from the western border and what we are going to do next when it comes to ADO and the other buses in Guatemala."
