A few weeks back, as part of this ongoing conversation on checks and balances, we took a comparative look at the salient aspects of the Legislature’s ability to oversee and provide checks on Executive power (see Part 1 by Clicking Here). At the time, we used the world’s most popular democracy, the United States, as the benchmark (so to speak).

But as that article, published in the July 9^th issue of The Reporter, made clear, the goal should not be to carbon copy the USA’s presidential system. The goal, instead, is to ask at least two fundamental questions: (a) what are the Parliamentary system’s analogous features that provide oversight of the Executive, and (b) how do Belize’s systems stack up next to the equivalent Parliamentary benchmarks.