Tax workers have walked off the job. The PSU is threatening escalation. Government says SARA means modernization. But beneath the dispute over jobs and pensions lies a far bigger national question: Who should control the institution entrusted with collecting and administering Belize's tax revenues?
SPECIAL ACCOUNTABILITY FEATURE
FOLLOWING THE MONEY BEHIND MARA LEZAMA'S PRIVATE JET TRAVEL
REGIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY FEATURE
CANCÚN / BELIZE CITY: Wednesday 26th August 2026: — The airplanes can tell us where Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama travelled. They cannot, by themselves, tell us who paid for the journey. And that is precisely where this story now begins.
THE BORROWING STATE — PART II
The question is no longer whether Belize borrows. Every government borrows. The question is what six years of borrowing have left behind.
In Part I we posed a deliberately uncomfortable question:
Belize City: Sunday 23rd August 2026:
WHY DOES SO MUCH OF GOVERNMENT'S DEVELOPMENT AGENDA ARRIVE WITH A LOAN ATTACHED TO IT?
WHEN THE COMPANY BEING QUESTIONED INVESTIGATES ITSELF, PUBLIC CONFIDENCE CANNOT BE THE RESULT
Special Energy Accountability Feature
Belize City: Tuesday 25th August 2026: There comes a point in every public controversy when explanations stop answering questions and begin creating new ones.
Belize may have reached that point with Belize Electricity Limited.
Belize is told that the economy is stronger, the debt burden is falling and fiscal stability has returned. Then why does another loan seem to accompany almost every new Government initiative?
Part: 1
Belize City: Monday 24th August 2026: There comes a point when a country must stop celebrating the announcement of financing and begin asking a much harder question:
WHY ARE WE BORROWING THE MONEY IN THE FIRST PLACE?
NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE BIG SUNDAY FEATURE
Belize City: Sunday 23rd August 2026: There comes a moment in government when an explanation stops being an explanation and becomes an admission of the limits of the government's economic strategy.
Belize may have reached one of those moments.
Follow up to my Facebook Post earlier: BEFORE WE BLAME MEXICO FOR YOUR LIGHT BILL — THE PUC'S OWN NUMBERS DESERVE A CLOSER
***Consumer & Energy Analysis
STABLE FOR WHOM?
NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE BELIZE | ECONOMIC REALITY
From Stopping an $80 Million Acquisition to a 90-Day Challenge Against the Way Public Institutions Are Governed
Belize City: Wednesday 19th August 2026
Something changed in Belize on August 18.
The Architecture of a Conscience-Driven FUTURE Belize
REALITY → PERSPECTIVE → UNDERSTANDING → CONSCIOUSNESS → VISION → PARTICIPATION → TRANSFORMATION → ACCOUNTABILITY
Belize does not have to think alike. But Belize must learn how to think together.
THE QUESTION BENEATH ALL THE OTHER QUESTIONS
