Tonight’s question is: Do you think that the high unemployment rate that is hovering at close to twenty three percent will hamper economic recovery? 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 current question on our online poll is asking viewers and readers if they feel that the Gang Suppression Unit is using excessive force on civilians. And the answer from seventy-five percent of voters is a resounding no. The general sentiment is that a little excessive force could serve as a deterrent to the deadly […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think the Gang Suppression Unit is using excessive force on civilians? 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.
Turning to Tuesday’s question; in past years, foreign riders have been taking away the coveted title of Cross Country Champ and the prestigious garland of the nation’s biggest sporting event. The last time a Belizean wore the garland was back in 2006 when Shane Vasquez made the sprint to the finishing line. So on Tuesday […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think it is beneficial for foreign riders to participate in Holy Saturday’s Cross Country Cycling Classic? 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 murder count is at thirty-seven and it’s only mid-April. Everyone desperately wants something to be done to rein in crime. But how far can the government go with legislative changes? We asked our viewers earlier this week, if they thought that government should first tackle the social ills instead of imposing draconian laws to […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think that government should attack the social ills instead of imposing draconian laws to reduce crime? Get involved by emailing your comments and responses to questions@channel5belize.com or by sending a text, using SMART phones only, to 8686. You can also participate in our online poll at www.channel5belize.com.
Do you think a foreign commissioner of police will reduce crime? That’s question we posed to viewers after it became public this week that the government has decided a contract a foreign top cop. The polling has been neck to neck all day and at the time of writing, there’s a virtual tie. Of the […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think a foreign commissioner of police will reduce crime? 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.
With the rise of urban warfare, particularly in Belize City Streets, Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting dealt extensively on crime and security issues. It was agreed that three legislative changes will be introduced at the next sitting of the House of Representatives. But two of those changes are controversial because one allows for preventative detention of persons […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you support the proposed draconian measures, such as trial by judge alone, as a means to tackle crime? 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.
You will know by now that last Saturday’s platinum artists were a no show as advertised for the concert featuring Shyne, the Music Ambassador and son of the P.M. The buzz was that the mega concert was a pre-release party for his latest album, where two surprise artists would perform. Thousands of persons paid fifty […]
Tonight’s question is: Should patrons who bought tickets for the Shyne concert last Saturday, believing that two platinum artists would perform, be refunded their money? 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 […]
The prices of fuel keep going up and there’s no stopping. The government has removed the GST but has added an additional dollar on import duties that is not refundable to the business sector and is sure to affect the cost of living. We asked our viewers if government is doing enough to bring relief […]
Tonight’s question is: Is government doing enough to bring relief to consumers in respect to the spiraling cost of fuel? 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.
Mahogany Street vendors are being asked to move from their current location because it is smack where the main transmission line for electricity runs. On Wednesday we asked the question of whether the viewers thought that the vendors should be compensated for losses to be incurred in their relocation. The polls went sixty-six percent in […]
Tonight’s Question is: Should Mahogany Street vendors be compensated for losses incurred from their relocation to a yet unknown venue? 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.
At last poll we asked you our viewers and internet browsers to vote on whether you think the government should have a limit on what it spends on lawyer’s fees when it outsources legal work. So what was the response to the question? Well, a vast majority of viewers, ninety one percent to be specific, […]
There is one unconfirmed report that upwards of four million dollars has been paid in fees to one lawyer in private practice to do government work. So tonight’s question is: Do you think G.O.B. should put a limit on what it spends on lawyer’s fees when it outsources legal work? Send your comments and responses […]
Should government continue to grant licenses for oil exploration in protected areas? That’s the question we put to viewers on Tuesday night. Seventy nine percent thought no and according a comment on our blog that’s because: “The purpose of a protected area is to safeguard specific natural and cultural values and to preserve areas.” Twenty-one […]
Tonight’s question is: Should government continue to grant licenses for oil exploration or drilling in any protected area or national park? 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 government is investing forty-seven million dollars to upgrade the southern highway up to the border with Guatemala. When you consider the number of incursions already happening in the south, it raises the questions of whether security problems will outweigh the benefits. That’s what we asked our viewers on Tuesday night and the response was […]
A loan of forty-eight million dollars will be spent to upgrade twenty three miles of road in the south that will link the Southern Highway to the Belize/Guatemala border. Tonight’s question is: Do you think the security problems from the upgraded road access will outweigh the economic benefits to the south? Send your comments and […]
Two teachers were fired last week from Sadie Vernon High School; it caused uproar at the school between the teachers, administration and board of management. Things have simmered down but the issue remains unresolved. We asked last night if the board of management should pack up. Eighty-three percent of those polling thought so while seventeen […]
Tonight’s question is: Should the Board of Management of Sadie Vernon High School resign? 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.
