And one of the major pressures on the PM to remove the Minister was the financial system leaks - which reveal a troubling pattern of payouts from the Minister's Ministry of Defence to businesses owned by his family members.
This weekend we took a closer look at the latest tranche of financial system leaks. The Reporter reports:
Friday's data dump of 56 Smart Stream screenshots show what are believed to be almost all the payments made by the Government of Belize to the Mira family owned MP Farms between September 23, 2024 and June 8, 2026.
It's a total of 601 leaked transactions totaling $5,678,743.08 in revenue to MP Farms.
They show that year-on-year growth in revenue from sales to the government between fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2025 to 2026 was a solid 8%. But in the 2025 to 2026 fiscal year, it exploded, zooming up from just over $1 million to $3.28 million, a growth of 311%.
It is notable that the peak months for Ministry of Defence purchases from MP Farms occurred when Oscar Mira was the full Minister of Defence-May and September of 2025 - months when MP Farms was paid out more than $1.5 million.
Of the 601 invoices we reviewed - 591 were payments form Mira's Ministry of Defence to MP Farms for a total of 5.5 million dollars while the other 10 were for the Prime Minister's office
For the Ministry of Defence, 589 of those 591 payments were under the $10,000 reporting threshold, while for the PM office all 10 were above that threshold.
And most of those MOD invoices - 449 of them - were for between $9,000 and $9,999. In just 21 months, $4.3 million was paid out just in that band.
We also saw that one sequence of 8 invoices was used twice - in 2025 and 2026-but for different figures.
