Yesterday evening at 5:30 we got another set of screenshot leaks out of the Ministry of Defence, but these ones deal with a company named Meat Masters. That's a company out of Orange Walk that was selected to supply fish and meat for the BDF and the Belize Coast Guard.
But tender or not, we found familiar patterns and those same telltale signs of structured payments when analyzing a few weeks of payments:
The latest screenshots we received contain 54 records for total transactions of $435,455.73 between April 13 and May 11, 2026, for an Orange Walk vendor named Meat Master. And it shows the same patterns of what financial experts call structuring-all 54 invoices are for below $10,000.
What jumped out at us is that on a single Monday afternoon-May eleventh, 2026-the software logs show forty consecutive invoices processed back-to-back for Meat Master. That includes an eleven-invoice carbon-copy cascade capped at exactly nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars each-hugging that ten thousand dollar threshold. All told, the train of sub-threshold invoices totaled 304 thousand dollars in a single day.
The CEO for Defence, Francis Usher, told us, quote, "They are paid how they are submitted, and the BDF/BCG submits them for payment in batches."
And while it remains a puzzlement how the invoice batches always fall under that 10,000 scrutiny threshold, these 2026 leaks prove that the practice is almost institutionalized in the Ministry of Defence and perhaps many others.
Usher told us yesterday they are changing that now:
Francis Usher, CEO - DEFENCE
"What we're doing now is that multiple invoices or multiple purchase orders, when they become invoices, with the way the bills are submitted, we compile them into one big invoice for one payment by suppliers so that when you look at that invoice, the details will say reference invoice, this, this, this, this, and then you, it will have, the accompanying documents and by doing it like that, we are sending it over to the Ministry of Finance. We're sending it over to the contractor general, just in an attempt to show that, hey, there is the audit will reveal…We currently are not doing anything outside the realm of what is legal, what is possible."
As for the company, it is owned by relatives of CEO Usher by marriage. He told us it was established as a sole proprietorship in 2022, and in 2025 it transitioned to being owned by Kerr Gomez and his wife.
Usher adds, "The (owner went) through the entire open tendering process and I can ensure I intervened at no point."
But we should note that there are disgruntled applicants who bid for that tender but felt that they didn't receive it because they didn't know the right people.
CEO Usher told us those screenshots are payments for 2 months' worth of fish and meat for the BDF and BCG.
