The city's garbage will be picked up as normal starting this week. That's after central government once again came to City Hall's rescue. The council had racked up arrears of eight hundred thousand dollars due to low cash flow in the third and fourth quarters of the year - and for the first time under a PUP City Admin - Waste Control wasn't going to take it. Mayor Bernard Wagner explained the fix:
Bernard Wagner, Belize City Mayor
"I believe, through the government interjection, they had agreed with BWC to have it resume the picking up on the condition that we make good of our 65 per week, consistently up until the end of December and thereafter we begin to look at how we reduce the arrears."
Reporter
"So central government has provided a bail out?"
Bernard Wagner, Belize City Mayor
"No, I believe they had discussions with the entity on our behalf and had agreed to, and obviously asked us if we could comply with that offer, which we did, but we had been essentially earmarked to commence our regular payment schedule from the first of December, which we had been doing."
