Media histrionics over the past twenty days surrounding the Universal Health Services guarantee created an atmosphere – palpable and tense – of a looming political crisis. So: if it looks like a crisis and sounds like a crisis, is it?

Politicians countrywide routinely fund funerals, graduations, textbooks, summer programs for children, house rent, medical bills, utility bills (including cable), and home repairs. ...is campaign finance reform really needed in tiny societies like Belize?