On October 30, 2026, a public sector labor leader has raised urgent concerns over the pending long-term lease of state-owned bus terminals to the partially private National Bus Company (NBC), demanding that public assets are not undervalued to the financial detriment of ordinary Belizean citizens. Dean Flowers, president of the Public Service Union (PSU), laid out a series of formal demands for government negotiators overseeing the lease agreement, emphasizing that the high-revenue public transit facilities generate hundreds of thousands, and in some cases potentially millions, of dollars in annual operational income that must be explicitly factored into any formal lease pricing structure. The proposed deal under discussion would grant NBC extended, long-term access to the network of public bus terminals, but full details of the draft lease terms have not yet been released to the public or legislative representatives. Flowers highlighted that NBC operates as a private firm with a roster of private shareholders, even as the Belizean government holds a partial stake in the company, meaning that private stakeholders stand to directly profit from the use of the publicly owned transit infrastructure. He warned that a poorly structured, below-market lease would effectively force ordinary taxpayers to subsidize the operational costs of high-value public assets for the exclusive financial benefit of private shareholders, a outcome the PSU is pushing government regulators to explicitly prevent. These public concerns emerged just as the national Senate is conducting formal review of the broader proposed bus concession packages for NBC. During the Senate’s Thursday sitting, the official motions that would grant NBC limited and exclusive transit service concessions along the high-traffic Western and Southern Corridors were formally referred to the Constitution and Foreign Affairs Committee for extended, in-depth deliberation and public consultation before a final legislative vote. The PSU has additionally called on regulatory authorities to enforce a level competitive playing field, ensuring no private transit operator receives preferential access to public infrastructure at discounted rates that would undercut independent competitors across the national transit network.