Belizeans are not simply asking why electricity costs more. They are asking why some household meters are suddenly recording substantially more electricity consumption. Cabinet's GST concession may reduce part of a bill. It cannot prove that the kilowatt-hours producing that bill are correct.
SPECIAL ENERGY ACCOUNTABILITY FEATURE — PART II
SPECIAL SUNDAY FEATURE |
Belize City: Sunday 6th September 2026: A POLITICIAN. A BUSINESSMAN. A REAL-ESTATE DEVELOPER. A TRUMP ALLY. NOW AMERICA'S MAN IN BELIZE.
André Bauer has arrived in Belize.
There will be diplomatic handshakes. There will be photographs. There will be the customary declarations about the long friendship between Belize and the United States.
KILL THE BILL — PART II
SPECIAL ACCOUNTABILITY FEATURE
One of the most concrete elements to emerge from Prime Minister John Briceño’s Honduras visit is now beginning to take shape.
Belize City: Friday 4th September 2026: Health Minister Kevin Bernard has confirmed that Belize has started discussions with Honduras toward developing a Memorandum of Understanding that could provide for medical-professional exchanges, expanded university opportunities for Belizeans and recruitment of health professionals from Honduras to work in Belize.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has moved beyond the summit photograph. From security institutions and ports to artificial intelligence, energy, development finance and new partnerships with the Global South, Bishkek revealed an international order quietly being reconstructed — but the new architecture remains unfinished, contested and far from replacing the old one.
INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS
Breaking the Chains and Building the Belizean Reset
Belize City: Wednesday 2nd. September:
Forty-five years ago, on September 21, 1981, a new flag rose over Belize.
Forty-five years later, our National Celebrations Theme calls upon us:
“LOOK AT ME: I AM BELIZE @ 45.”
What Sunday's PUP Convention Revealed — And What Belize City Must Demand Before March 2027
Belize City: Tuesday 1st September 2026: There are moments in politics when the spectacle itself becomes the story. Sunday was one of them.
Belize City witnessed what looked, sounded and felt almost like a national election: tents, banners, mountains of political T-shirts, music, transportation, campaign machinery, crowds, political operatives and, eventually, fireworks.
BEL warned of a material generation shortfall in November 2024. In August 2026, it returned to the PUC warning of another. Before Belize enters another round of emergency generation procurement, the country deserves an accounting of what happened in between.
SPECIAL ENERGY ACCOUNTABILITY FEATURE — PART I
A Belizean Architecture for Water Security, Environmental Sovereignty and Transformational Governance
Belize City: Sunday 30th August 2026: Belize must begin treating water not merely as an environmental issue, but as a matter of national security, public health, economic survival and sovereign responsibility.
The leaked correspondence did not merely expose disagreements among judges. It opened an unprecedented window into allegations concerning leadership, judicial independence, panel selection and the internal administration of the Caribbean Court of Justice. President Winston Anderson strongly denies the gravest accusations. But the controversy has already forced institutional changes — and raised questions the Caribbean can no longer afford to leave unanswered.
SPECIAL REGIONAL JUSTICE INVESTIGATION
