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How did an institution built around developing and marketing Belizean agricultural production evolve into a state-controlled importer and distributor of foreign agricultural produce?

It began by helping Belizean farmers market what Belize produced. Today it imports foreign produce into a market where Government controls who can import. How did we get here — and what is the Belizean family paying for it?

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

Belize's Prime Minister condemned the Guatemalan military-aircraft incursion before the United Nations. The issue is not that he remained silent. The question is whether, with Belize's sovereignty suddenly a live international issue, the country fully used the most powerful diplomatic platform it was likely to receive.

SUNDAY SPECIAL FEATURE

Belize City: Sunday 27th September 2026: 

FAG706 Exposed a Question Bigger Than One Guatemalan Military Aircraft

Belize does not need to outgun Guatemala. But sovereignty cannot begin and end with a protest note.

SPECIAL ANALYSIS

Belize City: Saturday 26th September 2026: A Guatemalan military aircraft entered Belizean airspace.

According to Belize's own Ministry of National Defence, it was not there for a few accidental seconds.

MIA MOTTLEY’S MESSAGE WAS BIGGER THAN BARBADOS — IT WAS A CHALLENGE TO THE ARCHITECTURE OF GLOBAL POWER

GLOBAL ANALYSIS

Belize City: Friday 25th September 2026: There are speeches delivered at the United Nations that disappear almost as soon as the applause ends.

And then there are interventions that capture something much larger than the country whose flag stands behind the speaker.

CORDEL HYDE SAYS “SOMETHING’S OFF” — BUT THE BIGGER WARNING MAY BE WHAT IS HAPPENING OUTSIDE BELMOPAN

SPECIAL ANALYSIS

Belize City: Thursday 24th September 2026: There comes a point in the life of a government when criticism from outside matters less than the warnings beginning to emerge from within.

Belize may have reached one of those moments.

THE GOVERNMENT LEVER

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

Belize City: Wednesday 23rd September 2026:  A gallon of fuel does not arrive at the pump with its final price already written by the international petroleum market.

• There is the landed cost.
• There are commercial margins.
• And there is government taxation.

Belize's own Ministry of Finance fuel-price worksheets establish that distinction.

21 SEPTEMBER 1981 — 21 SEPTEMBER 2026

INDEPENDENCE SPECIAL

Belize City: Sunday 20th September 2026: Forty-five years ago, Belize became politically independent. That achievement should never be diminished.

Jeremy Enriquez Takes the EBC to Court — and Opens a Much Bigger Question About Who Guards Belize’s Electoral Democracy

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION | CHAPTER I