Tonight’s Question is: Do you support GOB’s plans to grant amnesty to twenty thousand illegal immigrants? 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 leaders in the recently exposed human smuggling ring are highly connected persons and there officially seems to be more concern about leaks than about getting to the bottom of the scandal. News Five has been following the paper trail and in our special report on the immigration scandal, we have revealed the details that […]
Tonight we ask: Is government displaying any transparency and accountability to get to the bottom of the ongoing immigration scandal? 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.
We asked on Thursday, if a commission of inquiry should be named to look into the recent immigration scandal. The results of the poll are in and eighty-seven percent said yes to the commission while thirteen were not convinced a commission would make a difference to get to the bottom of the reputed smuggling ring. […]
Tonight’s question: Should there be a Commission of Inquiry into the recent immigration scandal? 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.
On Tuesday night we asked about the burning issue of the Social Security Board investment in Telemedia shares. The question was should the unions hold off investment until litigation against the company is concluded in the courts. Well, the viewers have spoken and seventy-nine percent think that the fifty million dollar investment for twenty percent […]
Tonight’s question is: Should the unions hold off any investment in Telemedia shares until all litigation relating to the company are concluded in the courts? 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 […]
It’s five days after hurricane Richard stripped many Belizeans of all they had and tonight, there are still victims waiting for assistance. The supplies are available, but are the relevant agencies spending too much time on the paperwork while families suffer? Eighty-eight percent of viewers who responded to Thursday’s question believe that the delivery of […]
The effects of Hurricane Richard are still being felt but many believe that NEMO’s hurricane preparedness plan is working. We put that question to our viewers and the response from those who polled, show that sixty-two percent have faith in NEMO while thirty-eight percent are not impressed. But tonight’s question is: Do you think that […]
Tonight we ask: Do you think that NEMO’s hurricane preparedness plans were adequate? 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 a memorandum ten pages long, the Director of Public Prosecutions concluded that there is not enough evidence to press murder charges on a sergeant for the killing of a corporal. Corporal Gavin Sanchez was shot multiple times on March eighteenth in the officers’ barracks behind the San Pedro Police Formation. Sergeant Paulino Reyes fired […]
Tonight’s question is: Should Sergeant Paulino Reyes be charged for the killing of Corporal Gavin Sanchez? 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.
We reported in Wednesday’s newscast that Nixon Alexander Maza who also uses the name Milton Darinel Maza has been arraigned for the double murder of Richard and Maria Stuart. Maza claimed in court that he is a naturalized Belizean and provided information in Spanish about the night of the murder. Maza lives at St Mathews […]
Recent changes in the judiciary are sounding alarm bells and have invited the attention of the Bar Association. These include “the unseemly manner” in which the former Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh was treated, the departure of justice Boyd Carey and now the resignation of the President of the Court of Appeals, Justice Elliott Mottley. The […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think that there is political interference with the independence of the judiciary? 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.
Six immigration officers have been arraigned so far in the immigration scam that broke a week ago in which three planes coming from Haiti were chartered to bring Chinese nationals to Belize. On Thursday night we asked if you believe that the investigations into the human smuggling ring will lead to the arrest of the […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you believe that the investigations by the Ministers of Police and Immigration into the human smuggling ring will lead to the arrest of the ring leaders? 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 […]
The response from our viewers to Tuesday night’s questions on whether there is a cover up by authorities on the facts of the Immigration scandal was a resounding yes. Ninety-six percent of voters on our e-poll said yes while only four percent voted against. In the comments, some point the finger of blame all way […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you believe there is a cover-up by authorities in the immigration scandal? Share your views by sending an email to questions@channel5belize.com or a text, using SMART phones only, to 8686. You can also log on to our website at www.channel5belize.com and vote on our e-poll.
Since Tuesday, we’ve been exposing the details of chartered flights from the Caribbean, bringing in Asian nationals who were quickly cleared by immigration at the Philip Goldson International Airport. So we asked on Thursday night, if you believe there is high level collusion in the human smuggling ring that is being exposed. Ninety-four percent of […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think that there is high level collusion in the human smuggling ring that is being exposed? 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.
The prospectus for the sale of shares in the BTL will be released on October fifteenth but debate is raging on whether Social Security pension funds should be invested. On Tuesday night we asked if fifty million dollars of the SSB pension funds should be used to buy Telemedia shares. On our e-poll eighty percent […]
Tonight’s question is: The money from the sale of shares in Telemedia will go for compensation to the previous owners of the company; do you support the investment of fifty million dollars from SSB pension funds to buy the shares? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think it is too risky for the Social Security Board to invest fifty million dollars in BTL shares since the company is mired in litigation and the value is not known? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at […]
Last week, legislation was passed in the House of Representatives to legalize the controversial wiretapping of telephone calls or the interception of communications. On Tuesday we asked our viewers to weigh in on whether or not such measures will deter crime as is proposed by the government. Sixty-nine percent of our viewers thought it will […]
