1798 was an event. 1898 helped construct its national memory. But neither created the sovereign country called Belize.
CHAPTER ONE
SPECIAL HISTORICAL SERIES
Belize City: Sunday 13th September 2026: There comes a point in the life of every mature nation when patriotism must become strong enough to withstand history.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2026 — AS BELIZE CELEBRATES 45 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE, ANOTHER CLOCK IS TICKING AT THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
SPECIAL REPORT
Belize City : Saturday 12th September 2026:
On September 21, 1981, the Union Jack came down and the Belizean flag rose over a new independent nation.
Forty-five years later, on September 21, 2026, Belize will again raise that flag.
IRAN SPLITS THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL — AND PUTS THE POST-WAR ORDER UNDER STRAIN
SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS
Belize City: Friday 11th September 2026:
NEW YORK — The argument inside the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, September 10, 2026, was ostensibly about Iran. But listen carefully to what the five permanent members were actually arguing about and a much larger confrontation emerges.
Belize did not suddenly discover the MCC conditions in September 2026. So how did two years of preparation become ten days of parliamentary urgency?
Belize City: Wednesday 9th September 2026: There is a very dangerous temptation in the public discussion surrounding Belize's US$125 million Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact.
It is to reduce everything to one question:
When a Cabinet Minister says some politicians are “hungrier for power than others,” Belize should listen carefully — because the people have been saying something remarkably similar for years.
Belize City: Monday 7th September 2026: There comes a point when public distrust can no longer be dismissed as opposition politics, Facebook noise, talk-show agitation or the natural cynicism people supposedly have toward government.
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.
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.”
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.
