By: Omar Silva I Editor/Publisher

National Perspective Belize — Holding Power to Account

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Belize City: Wednesday 12th November 2025

EDITORIAL:

The Briceño Administration has perfected the art of illusion.

When reality becomes unbearable, it performs — a reshuffle here, a press conference there, and endless slogans about “Plan Belize,” “transformation,” and “growth.” But behind the performance lies the same rot that has eaten through every administration since independence: a government obsessed with managing power, not governing a nation.

The November 11th Cabinet reshuffle is the clearest proof yet that Belize is being ruled by a clique, not led by a vision. The Prime Minister, once seen as a unifier, has instead turned his Cabinet into a chessboard of personal loyalties and dynastic favors.

When the brother of one fallen minister replaces him in the very same ministry, and the most powerful portfolios are recycled among the same inner circle, we are no longer witnessing governance — we are witnessing a family affair in public office.

And what of the people?

The people who were promised “lands out of idle hands,” who were told that a new minimum wage would uplift their lives, that opportunity would finally flow beyond the corridors of power?

They now face prices that have tripled, a dollar that buys less every month, and a government that behaves like an absentee landlord.

The truth is that the Briceño Administration has run out of ideas.

It has no roadmap to confront crime. It has no plan to resuscitate the tourism sector or the productive economy. It has no strategy to empower the tens of thousands of young Belizeans trapped between unemployment and underemployment. Instead, it continues to lean on international donors, recycled loans, and staged optimism while the ship of state quietly takes on water.

Even the few bright spots — like the long-overdue wage increase — have been neutralized by runaway inflation, rising fuel costs, and taxes that feed the same bloated system. Belizeans are paying more for less, while the government congratulates itself for simply surviving another news cycle.

This is not leadership; it is maintenance of decay.

What we are witnessing is not transformation, but terminal stagnation — a government that confuses movement for progress, spin for substance, and power for purpose.

The reshuffle will not restore public trust.

It will not end corruption at the Lands Department or stop the political gatekeeping that decides who eats and who starves in this small, unequal nation.

It will not give our youth jobs, nor will it make the streets safe after sunset.

All it does is tighten the noose around a government already strangled by its own contradictions.

Belize deserves better — a government that governs, not one that survives.

Until that day comes, every reshuffle, every rebrand, every speech will remain what it has always been: an act of desperation dressed up as reform.