From Belize to Barbados, Jamaica to Guyana, Haiti to Suriname: Four Centuries After Enslavement and Colonial Extraction, the Caribbean Must Stop Defending Its History and Start Presenting the Bill
REGIONAL SPECIAL FEATURE
Belize City: Saturday 29th August 2026: There comes a moment when historical distortion becomes so extraordinary that silence itself risks becoming complicity.
That moment has arrived.
You Cannot Build a Healthcare Workforce in Isolation. Doctors Need Hospitals. Nurses Need Equipment. Specialists Need Diagnostic Capacity. And Belize Needs a System That Connects Them All.
Belize City: Friday 28th August 2026: The announcement sounds encouraging.
The Government of Belize intends to invest approximately BZ$30 million over ten years to train Belizean doctors, nurses, specialists and other healthcare professionals.
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.
