PSU President Demands Full Financial Disclosures from Statutory Bodies

Public Service Union President Dean Flowers is once again calling out government spending, this time on vehicles. In Thursday’s NTUCB press conference, Flowers said the Government of Belize is spending $17 million annually on overtime payments. He pointed to what he called a “continuous hustle” in vehicle purchases between 2021 and 2025.

Flowers said $10.2 million was spent on vehicles in the 2021–2022 fiscal year alone, just after the pandemic. What stood out, he said, is that 20% of those funds, roughly $2.2 million, went not to established car dealers but to a group of 16 private individuals.

“There wasn’t much purchasing in 2022–2023,” he added, “but by 2023–2024 and again in 2024–2025, the same group, this time only five individuals, were responsible for selling $1.2 million worth of vehicles to the government.”

“I am saying that that’s another area of abuse and corruption that the Ministry of Finance is well aware of. Over the three years, they would have spent almost 22 million dollars,” he stated.

Flowers also demanded that the Briceño administration table financial statements from statutory bodies such as the Belize Agricultural Health Authority (BAHA), IMMARBE, the Financial Services Commission, and the Belize Airport Authority. He extended the call to include BELTRAIDE, the Social Investment Fund (SIF), COCESNA funds, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT), the Belize Tourism Board (BTB), Belize Port Authority, Pesticide Control Board, NICH, and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC).

He said, “These organisations are all mandated by law to lay on the table their financial statements.”

“Make it public, or your integrity will continue to be called into question along with those associated to you,” Flowers said to the Briceño government.