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THE 787: MONEY, POWER AND THE BATTLE FOR BELIZE CITY

What Sunday's PUP Convention Revealed — And What Belize City Must Demand Before March 2027

Belize City: Tuesday 1st September 2026: There are moments in politics when the spectacle itself becomes the story. Sunday was one of them.

Belize City witnessed what looked, sounded and felt almost like a national election: tents, banners, mountains of political T-shirts, music, transportation, campaign machinery, crowds, political operatives and, eventually, fireworks.

BEL: WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN THE FIRST EMERGENCY AND THE SECOND EMERGENCY?

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

WHEN THE RIVER CROSSES THE BORDER: A Belizean Architecture for Water Security, Environmental Sovereignty and Transformational Governance

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.

THE CRISIS INSIDE THE CARIBBEAN'S HIGHEST COURT: WHEN FIVE JUDGES CHALLENGED THE PRESIDENT

The leaked correspondence did not merely expose disagreements among judges. It opened an unprecedented window into allegations concerning leadership, judicial independence, panel selection and the internal administration of the Caribbean Court of Justice. President Winston Anderson strongly denies the gravest accusations. But the controversy has already forced institutional changes — and raised questions the Caribbean can no longer afford to leave unanswered.

SPECIAL REGIONAL JUSTICE INVESTIGATION 

THE CARIBBEAN DOES NOT OWE THE BRITISH EMPIRE: THE DEBT RUNS THE OTHER WAY

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.

BZ$30 MILLION FOR HEALTH WORKERS — BUT WHERE IS BELIZE'S HEALTHCARE BLUEPRINT?

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.

KILL THE BILL: SARA HAS BECOME A TEST OF WHO CONTROLS BELIZE'S REVENUE STATE

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

THE 97-FLIGHT QUESTION REGARDING THE GOVERNOR of QUINTANA ROO

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.