Minister of Home Affairs Oscar Mira - he's been dominating the headlines ever since May 30th when police arrested prominent UDP provocateur Alberto August and charged him for cyber-bullying Mira with a Facebook post.
Since then, Mira has been taking daily floggings on social media - mocked with AI imagery, battered by comments, and increasingly exposed for allegedly enriching his family - by his former political rival John Saldivar who has made a succession of stinging Facebook posts exposing the current Belmopan area rep.
And certainly, leaks are streaming in from all sides. We're still poring over scores of entries from the Smart Stream system showing hundreds of payments to Oscar Mira's sister, Jenny between 2020 and 2025.
Tonight, in Part Two, we go inside the paperwork - where a series of cloned payment totals tell a story that defies the laws of economics, agriculture, and common sense. Jules Vasquez reports:...
On paper, the procurement looks meticulous. This tender document for 'Mira's Fresh Fruits and Veggies' outlines exactly what Minister of State Oscar Mira's Ministry of Defence was contracting to purchase to feed the army.
The line items denote precision: exactly 2,104 apples at a dollar each. One thousand pounds of bananas. One hundred and twenty-five pounds of cauliflower.
But while the products, the quantities and the prices may have varied from from month to month, the leaks from the Smart Stream ledger show an alarming number of identical payments made the Minister Mira's sister Jenny.
During the summer of 2023, the system processed four entirely separate invoices across July and August. Different weeks, different reference numbers - but every single invoice was paid out for the exact same non-rounded figure: $8,608.99. The end of July saw a double day - when the same payment was repeated twice on the same day.
The pattern might beg the question of how hundreds of pounds of highly volatile local crops add up to the exact same price four times in a row?
And our review shows this pattern was operating on a loop for years. In the early stages, the figure $5,025.74 appears at least fourteen times under entirely different invoice codes. The sum $6,876.33 repeats at least ten times.
As the operation grew, the figures simply scaled up right to the brink of the ten-thousand-dollar ceiling but the pattern remained.
The number $9,124.06 was recycled seven times. The amount $7,391.40 was replayed six times.
But the most glaring irregularity is the single-day sprees.
On May 13, 2024, the Ministry processed eight separate payments on the exact same afternoon. Every single payment was made for precisely $461.25.
On August 19, 2025, a single run at the Western Regional Hospital approved four consecutive invoices simultaneously - each one for exactly $543.25.
And remember that eighteen-thousand-dollar check that was blocked and split in late April, 2025? It wasn't the first time they used that exact blueprint.
Two months prior, the system ran the same numbers: Invoices 11448 and 11449 were pushed through back-to-back for $9,270.77 and $8,838.49.
It is the exact same pair of numbers that we saw in the April split - down to the single penny.
A striking pattern of repeat behaviors, leading to hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments over 5 years, all under the Ministry of Finance radar. And all paid out to the Minister of State's Sister, Jenny Mira - whose vendor number was much used in the SMART Stream system - appearing as many as 898 times in 5 years - we have only seen 497 entries valued at 1.7 million dollars. We did ask Mira if the tenders were awarded based on competitive bid but he didn't respond to our queries. The Mira family is well known to own and operate a vegetable stall.
