Shortage of License Plates and Stickers Again at Transport

For yet another time, there’s a shortage of license stickers and license plates. Today the Minister of Transport said that they had received a press release in August informing them that they were in stock, but in just a month the stock was depleted. He did not shy away from taking blame and assured us that the problem should be fixed shortly.

 

Rodwell Ferguson, Minister of Transport

“As the minister responsible, I guess the buck stops at me. But ever since I tell my staff, we must get the act together. So, you know, put a database in place. I’m asking them for the last year, let us have a minimum reorder level and a maximum reorder level so we  reach two hundred, it’s time to reorder. Right now, I believe we are getting to that, to that milestone, and hopefully after September, there should be no more issue with license plates. As those four sets came in, they’re gone. I want to applaud the Belizean people, they want to do things the legal way, and they come and demand a license plate, and come and demand their stickers. But we are now almost over the hump, and we should be able to come back and sweep.”

 

Reporter

“Why has it taken this long?”

 

Rodwell Ferguson

“I’ll say it’s internal, and I hope that I got it fixed now.”