To drill or not to drill in the Sarstoon Temash National Park? In response to Thursday night’s question, sixty-nine percent of viewers believe it would be illegal for GOB to allow the US Company, Capital Energy, to drill for oil in the protected area because of a court ruling. The remaining thirty-one percent of voters […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think oil drilling for commercial quantities is illegal in the Sarstoon Temash 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.
There was a lot of reaction to the question of whether or not, three years after it came to office, the government has been successful in keeping its manifesto promises. On our poll, seventy-nine percent said it has not while twenty-one percent thought it had. According to one viewer on our IMS “They pledged to […]
Three years ago on February eighth, the U.D.P. was elected on a platform to imagine the possibilities. So tonight’s question is: Do you think the government has been successful in keeping its manifesto promises? To take part in the conversation all you have to do is to email comments to questions@channel5belize.com, send a text using […]
In our poll on Thursday night, we asked viewers to opine if they found the security measures at the International Airport to be lacking. The question was raised in light of a Mexican aircraft undergoing maintenance that easily took off from the airport on a test flight and never returned. No one can tell who the […]
TONIGHT’S QUESTION IS: Do you think that security measures at the Philip Goldson International Airport are lacking? 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.
Government has agreed not to re-issue any oil concession in the area that has been given up by OPIC, the Taiwanese state owned company. It is some progress but there are larger environmental threats ahead both offshore and onshore since seventeen licenses have been issued. On Tuesday we asked our viewers if they supported the […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you agree with the environmental community that a referendum should be held on the issue of offshore and onshore oil exploration? 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 […]
Carnival Cruise Line is not backing off from its demand on tender operators. The next move will now be determined by the operators. On Thursday night we asked if the Cruise Lines should be allowed to continue calling in Belize. Sixty six percent said no they need to pack up and go while thirty four […]
Tonight’s question is: Given the stand taken by Carnival Cruise Lines in respect of the cost per head to ferry visitors to shore, should the cruise line be allowed to continue calling in Belize? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You […]
The debate on the retail of butane gas is raging. So does the public prefer to purchase butane directly from B.N.E. or the importers? The difference is over the price which can be had from B.N.E. for at least thirty percent cheaper. On our poll, by a wide margin most consumers prefer to get their […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you prefer to purchase butane gas from BNE or importers? 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 has been a hellish two weeks for tender operators in the cruise tourism and there is still uncertainty on how a new policy by the major cruise lines that requires larger tenders to transport passengers to shore will affect their livelihood. Last night we asked viewers if they thought the benefits of cruise tourism […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think the benefits of cruise tourism outweigh the disadvantages it brings to the jewel? 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 last hanging in Belize was back in 1985 when the noose was tightened on Kent Bowers for the murder of Robert Codd. With crime at an all time high many are calling for the return of the death penalty. But what do our viewers think about killing to defend life and property? On our […]
Tonight’s question is: Is killing justifiable to protect life and property? 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.
Our last question regarding primary school age children being sent on errands without adult supervision drew comments, some emotional, on both our e-poll and IMS. One viewer put her response in this way; “Belize is no playground, it is a dangerous place for EVERYONE, you can be sexually violated, assaulted or worst murdered so either […]
Tonight’s question is: Children of primary school age are being sent on errands without adult supervision. Are their parents negligent? 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.
In light of a story about a US national who has had to extend her stay in Belize because of traffic infractions and whose family has been making allegations on the internet that do not augur well for Belize, we asked if visitors should be treated differently from Belizeans when they commit any offence in […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you believe visitors should be treated differently from Belizeans when they commit offenses in the Jewel? To take part in the conversation all you have to do is to email comments to questions@channel5belize.com, send a text using your SMART phones to 8686, or log on to our e-poll at www.channel5belize.com.
Tonight the PM and a delegation from the Tourism Ministry are in Miami hoping to broker a deal with cruise lines to avert loss of jobs for boat tenders, who do not have the capacity to meet a new policy by the cruise lines. On Thursday night, we asked viewers if foreign interests should be […]
Tonight’s question is: Should foreign interests be allowed to have monopoly on tenders in the tourism industry? 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.
This week, two known criminal attorneys, Dickie Bradley and Anthony Sylvestre raised concerns over the ramifications the recently passed amendments to the Crime Control and Criminal Justice Act will have on citizens. Both Bradley and Sylvestre say that the nine amendments are so draconian and sweeping that they infringe on the rights of persons arrested […]
The cost of just about everything is on the rise, but there is one area where Prime Minister Dean Barrow promised relief when prices passed a certain mark. That is the price of fuel. We asked our viewers if they believe the PM should be held to his word to remove the dollar tax that […]
After a hiatus during the holidays, we start the year with an issue affecting the daily lives of Belizeans from all walks of life; the exorbitant prices of fuel that have spiked well past the ten dollar mark. Back in March 2009, when a dollar tax was introduced the Prime Minister promised he would remove […]
