EDITORIAL
Belize City: Thursday 18th Jube 2026: If the Minister knew nothing, what did the Administrative Officer know? What did the Finance Officer know? What did the CEO know? And if none of them knew, who exactly was overseeing the Ministry of National Defence?
Belize City: Wednesday 17th June 2026: Fifteen Years of National Ownership, Hydro Acquisitions, Infrastructure Loans and Now Another $73 Million for BEL Shares—Yet Belizeans Are Still Waiting for Their Dividend
There is a question that every Belizean household should be asking today.
Not whether the proposed seventy-three-million-dollar purchase of Belize Electricity Limited shares is a bailout.
Belize City: Sunday 14th June 2026: For decades, the Maya Land Rights issue has occupied a unique place in Belize's legal and political history.
Governments have changed. Ministers have come and gone. Court rulings have been issued. International attention has come and gone. Yet the fundamental question remains remarkably similar to the one being asked twenty years ago:
When will the rights recognized by the courts become realities on the ground?
EDITORIAL:
Belize City: Saturday 13th June 2026: For years, Belizeans have been told that the Occupational Safety and Health Bill is coming.
For years, workers have waited.
For years, consultations have been held, amendments discussed, concerns raised and promises repeated.
Yet, after all this time, one of the most revealing statements about the proposed legislation did not come from the Opposition, the unions, or labor advocates.
EDITORIAL
Belize City: Saturday 13th June 2026: For years, the world spoke about the digital divide as a question of access.
Belize City: Friday 12th June 2026: For decades, Cuban doctors, nurses, and medical professionals have quietly worked throughout Belize.
Thousands of Belizeans have been treated by Cuban healthcare workers.
Belize City: Friday 12th June 2026: Every few months Belizeans are presented with another encouraging report.
Government officials speak of resilience.
Banks speak of opportunity.
Belize City: Thursday 11th June 2026: A Bigger Cable or A Bigger Vision? For decades Belize has spoken the language of sustainable development, climate resilience, renewable energy, and green growth.
Successive governments have attended conferences, signed declarations, received grants, participated in regional energy initiatives, and celebrated millions of dollars in climate-related funding.
Belize City: Wednesday 10th June 2026: The latest revelations involving government payments to a politically connected vendor should not be treated as a passing scandal.
It should be treated as Pandora’s Box.
What is now being exposed is not merely a question of one minister, one ministry, one vendor, or one family. It is a wider question about how government business is distributed, how public money is monitored, and how political access can quietly become economic advantage.
SPECIAL FEATURE:
Belize City: Tuesday, 9th June 2026: Belizeans should not make the mistake of viewing Major Gilbert Swaso's constitutional lawsuit as merely another disagreement between a former public officer and the Government of Belize.
This case is potentially much bigger.
It goes directly to the survival of constitutional oversight in Belize.
At stake is not simply a contract.
