Viewers will remember that in December 2017, those hearings, which were publicly broadcasted, concluded after 13 months, and well over a hundred hours of testimony was recorded. In those hearings, the Senators on the committee called a long list of public officials to give account, under oath, of clear instances of fraud and corruption, which the Auditor General documented while auditing the Immigration Department for the period between 2011 and 2013.

It was expected to be a massive undertaking to peruse all that material to find out how best to ensure that the department's systems cannot be abused by corrupt public officials for the fraudulent issuance of Belizean nationality documents.

Last year October, the Committee Chairman, Senator Aldo Salazar, was publicly called out for failing to produce the report on a timely basis. Some of his political opponents went as far as to suggest that he was engaging in deliberate foot-dragging.

Well, the press asked him yesterday for an update on the final majority report at the UDP Leadership convention. That's when he revealed that he prepared a completed draft of over 100 pages 5 months ago. That is now in the hands of the other Senators who sat on the committee. Here's how he explained why that draft has not been tabled before the senate:

It is important to stress that this Wednesday, the minority report is going to be tabled, and not the majority. The Senate and the general public will still have to wait for that majority report, which must be voted on by the entire committee.