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  • Direct and control the government

    The Cabinet is the principal executive instrument of policy with general direction and control of the Government and is collectively responsible to the National Assembly (Constitution of Belize, s 44(2)).

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  • en.wikipedia.org · checked Wikipedia, Cabinet of Belize (page carries an out-of-date banner; lists a reshuffle dated 17-18 November 2025), read 2026-10-12: ministers, portfolios and dates. Fallback: Wikipedia, because nationalassembly.gov.bz is suspended (hosting account) and no official cabinet list was reachable For: Government of Belize, Minister of Finance, Investment, Civil Aviation and E-Governance, Minister of Natural Resources, Petroleum and Mining, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Education, Culture, Science and Technology, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and New Growth Industries and 31 more
  • pdba.georgetown.edu · checked Constitution of Belize (1981 text, Political Database of the Americas; later amendments not applied), read 2026-10-12: ss 30, 36-38, 40, 44, 55, 56, 60, 61, 68, 84. Fallback: Belize Laws online not fetched; sizes of the two Houses (31 and 13) are from the amended law as reported by Wikipedia For: Direct and control the government, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister
  • pressoffice.gov.bz · checked Government of Belize Press Office, "Prime Minister Announces Cabinet Adjustments", 2026-10-06, read 2026-10-12: full list of 18 ministers and portfolios after the 6 Oct 2026 adjustments (Chebat to National Security, Energy & Ports; Cervantes Jr. to Public Utilities, Logistics & Solid Waste Management; Osmond Martinez Minister of Economic Transformation; H. C. Usher adds Enterprise; Mira and Marin no longer listed). Effective date not stated, so the announcement date is used. For: Minister of Finance, Investment, Civil Aviation and E-Governance, Minister of Natural Resources, Petroleum and Mining, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Education, Culture, Science and Technology, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and New Growth Industries, Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing and 18 more
  • pressoffice.gov.bz · checked Office abolished 6 October 2026: Government of Belize Press Office, "Prime Minister Announces Cabinet Adjustments", 6 Oct 2026, read 2026-10-12: no Home Affairs portfolio in the list; Enterprise moved to H. C. Usher (Public Service, Disaster Risk Management & Enterprise). Effective date not stated, so the announcement date is used. For: Minister of Home Affairs and Enterprise
  • pressoffice.gov.bz · checked Office abolished 6 October 2026: Government of Belize Press Office, "Prime Minister Announces Cabinet Adjustments", 6 Oct 2026, read 2026-10-12: no National Defence and Border Security portfolio; Michel Chebat Minister of National Security, Energy & Ports (office 65396). Effective date not stated, so the announcement date is used. For: Minister of National Defence and Border Security
  • pressoffice.gov.bz · checked Government of Belize Press Office, "The Office of the Prime Minister Announces Cabinet Appointments", 15 Mar 2025, read 2026-10-12: Espat already held Infrastructure Development & Housing, Zabaneh Indigenous, Constitution & Religious Affairs & Transport, Thea Ramirez Human Development, Family Support & Gender Affairs, and Fonseca Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Culture & Immigration, so the 17 Nov 2025 (and 1 Jan 2024) start dates taken from Wikipedia were wrong; exact start dates not found. For: Francis Fonseca as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Education, Culture, Science and Technology, Julius Espat as Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing, Louis Zabaneh as Minister of Indigenous, Constitution and Religious Affairs and Transport, Thea Garcia-Ramirez as Minister of Human Development, Family Support and Gender Affairs
  • pressoffice.gov.bz · checked Government of Belize Press Office, "Governor-General Swears In New Attorney General", 2023-07-03, read 2026-10-12: Anthony Sylvestre (official spelling) appointed Attorney General effective 1 July 2023, sworn in 3 July 2023; renamed to his appointment on the 2025 and 2026 cabinet lists (pressoffice.gov.bz cabinet-appointments-2, 2025-03-15; cabinet-release-3, 2026-10-06). For: Anthony Sylvestre as Attorney General

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