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BOIL UP: SIX MEETINGS LATER: WHERE IS THE MONEY, WHERE ARE THE FACTORIES, AND WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

By: Omar Silva - Editor/ Publisher 

Belize City: Tuesday 23rd June 2026

  • Belizeans are not opposed to progress.
  • Belizeans are not opposed to cooperation with Mexico.

Belizeans are not opposed to the Tren Maya, industrial parks, synchronized factories, logistics corridors, export promotion, or access to new markets.

What Belizeans are increasingly opposed to is the growing gap between announcements and outcomes.

WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY ARE WE BUILDING TOGETHER FOR TOMORROW?

Belize City: Sunday 21st June 2026For more than four decades since Independence, Belizeans have faithfully participated in elections. We have voted. We have campaigned. We have worn colours. We have defended parties. We have celebrated victories and mourned defeats.

Yet a question remains unanswered:

What kind of country are we building together for tomorrow?

BELIZE'S ENERGY PARADOX The More We Own, The More We Pay

Belize City: Wednesday 17th June 2026: Fifteen Years of National Ownership, Hydro Acquisitions, Infrastructure Loans and Now Another $73 Million for BEL Shares—Yet Belizeans Are Still Waiting for Their Dividend

There is a question that every Belizean household should be asking today.

Not whether the proposed seventy-three-million-dollar purchase of Belize Electricity Limited shares is a bailout.

JALACTE AND THE QUESTION OF JUSTICE: CLARIFICATION, OR DELAY? When does a legal appeal protect the law, and when does it postpone the rights already recognized by the courts?

Belize City: Sunday 14th June 2026: For decades, the Maya Land Rights issue has occupied a unique place in Belize's legal and political history.

Governments have changed. Ministers have come and gone. Court rulings have been issued. International attention has come and gone. Yet the fundamental question remains remarkably similar to the one being asked twenty years ago:

When will the rights recognized by the courts become realities on the ground?

IF DOMESTIC WORKERS DESERVE PROTECTION, WHY ARE THEY EXCLUDED

EDITORIAL:

Belize City: Saturday 13th June 2026: For years, Belizeans have been told that the Occupational Safety and Health Bill is coming.

For years, workers have waited.

For years, consultations have been held, amendments discussed, concerns raised and promises repeated.

Yet, after all this time, one of the most revealing statements about the proposed legislation did not come from the Opposition, the unions, or labor advocates.