Tonight’s question is: In the long term Belizean taxpayers will pay for the acquisition of Telemedia, but who will benefit: Consumers or Lawyers? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
On many polls the common concern is over crime. This year has turned out to be particular violent and murderous. At the end of 2010, there were one hundred and thirty murders on record, making it the deadliest year in the country’s history. But according to our database, the first half of 2011 has been […]
There was a bundle of five questions in our last poll, the first being: Are you happy in Belize? The results were close with fifty-one percent of voters saying yes and forty-nine percent saying no. Do you feel safe in Belize? That was second in the series of questions and it had the widest margin […]
While Cardona abstained from the vote, there are results to a snap poll conducted over the past weekend by a British firm. A total of one hundred and fifty persons—eighty males and seventy females—participated in the survey and responded to nine statements ranging from the social state of the country to the nationalization of the […]
Over six persons voted on our last poll, which asked should the P.M. ignore Court of Appeal and retain control of Telemedia? Three hundred and ninety-six voters, which represent sixty-three percent, said no and emphasize in their comments that as a lawyer and the leader of this country, Prime Minister Dean Barrow should set the […]
The ongoing Telemedia fiasco has picked up traction within the international press. The prestigious Economist publishes an article called “Back to the Drawing Board” on its website detailing the legal drama that has unfolded in the wake of a judgment by the Court of Appeal last Friday. The Economist chronicles the background of Telemedia; up […]
Tonight’s question is: Should the Prime Minister ignore the ruling of the Court of Appeal and retain control of Telemedia? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
Following the expropriation of Belize Electricity Limited earlier this week, we asked viewers if they believe electricity rates should down since the company is now in government hands. The results of our online poll were split seventy to thirty percent, with the vast majority of voters saying yes to reduced rates. But on the comments […]
Tonight’s question is: Now that the government is in full control of B.E.L., should it bring down electricity rates? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
The future of B.E.L. continues to evolve so we asked consumers if they would prefer to pay higher rates and avoid power outages. Seventy-eight percent of voters on our e-poll said no to increased electricity bills while only twenty-two percent are prepared to make the sacrifice. Most of the persons who commented on our blog […]
Turning to tonight’s question: We have reported that government is considering the buyout of majority shares in BEL, so we ask: should electricity rates go up to avoid blackouts? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email […]
Wednesday night’s question to viewers was whether Government should provide Chetumal Street squatters with crown land elsewhere. Sixty-four percent voted no and many commented that the evicted persons are immigrants and should not be given a shortcut while Belizeans have to go through the proper procedures. Another view is that “Squatters should not be given […]
Tonight’s question is: Should Government provide Chetumal Street squatters with crown land elsewhere? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
The eviction of squatters from the site of the Chetumal Street Bridge has elicited a mixed bag of responses from the public. Over five hundred people polled on our last question: “Is Government justified in using force to evict the squatters in the Chetumal Street area before they could identify where to go?” Fifty-seven percent […]
How do you rate the government’s handling of the bus crisis? That’s the question we asked after a nationwide shutdown of public transportation and a blockage of the Northern and Western highways by bus operators. Things came to a head over road service permits that were taken from members of the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative […]
Tonight’s question is: How do you rate the government’s handling of the bus crisis: good or unsatisfactory? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
It is five days since the property of La Cabana owner, Mike Menjivar, in Las Flores, Belmopan was raided by the Gang Suppression Unit. Menjivar, his pregnant wife, their children and maid were all in the house when the G.S.U. carried out the pre-dawn attack. The G.S.U. head, Marco Vidal, gave his account of the […]
When the gang suppression unit was established, it was to deal with the gang related rivalry in the Old Capital. So tonight’s question is: Do you think that the scope of jurisdiction of the Gang Suppression Unit should be extended beyond the gangs and the City limits? Send your comments and responses using your SMART […]
The official statistics released earlier this week say that crime is down. We asked our viewers if they felt safer even though the heinous crime of murder is up when compared to last year. By a large margin, as high as ninety four percent, viewers said no. One viewer said, “When more than ninety percent […]
Last week Friday, the P.M. introduced a slew of controversial; some would say draconian, anti-crime legislation in the House of Representatives to address the deepening crisis in law enforcement. This week, the Police Ministry reacted with a release claiming that crime had actually dropped by seven percent this year compared to the same period last […]
Government is introducing tough new legislation to battle crime which the police say is down. Do you feel that the streets are safer even though the number of murders is up? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send […]
Everyone agrees that something has to be done to rein in crime, but there is mixed reaction on sweeping constitutional amendments proposed by Prime Minister Dean Barrow in the House last Friday. The preventative detention bill has been especially controversial because some believe that giving the cops authority to detain persons for up to twenty-one […]
We asked on earlier this week whether minors charged with murder should be tried in open court as adults. That question struck a chord with ninety percent of voters, who agree that such a serious crime warrants the same prosecution and punishment that an adult would face. Comments posted on our blog included that “The […]
Murder trials for minors are usually closed to the public. So tonight we ask should minors who are charged with murder be tried in open court as adults? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with […]
One of the most startling findings of the 2010 Population Census was that the unemployment rate has peaked to twenty-three percent. That prompted our last poll question, which asked viewers if they feel that the high unemployment will hamper the country’s economic recovery. While seventeen percent don’t share that concern, the majority of the voters—eighty-three […]
