Tonight’s question is: Do you believe that phone tapping will deter 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.
The prospectus for the sale of shares in Telemedia will be made public on October fifteenth. On Thursday, the Telemedia Employees Trust announced it is interested in acquiring majority shares. It is also known that Digicel Caribbean and the Social Security Board are also in discussions about the purchase of shares. We asked the public […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you support that your pension funds in Social Security should be used to buy shares in Telemedia? 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.
On Tuesday events were held countrywide to celebrate the twenty-ninth anniversary of independence. In the City, students marched through the streets in the uniform parade after the ceremonies at Memorial Park. While the occasion was festive, Belizeans had sobering thoughts about the unparalleled high level of crime and violence. During the parade, a News Five […]
After Thursday’s call for a shutdown to speak out against crime and violence and the senseless murder especially of eight year old Eyannie Nunez… we put forward the question: Do you support draconian measures such as curfew and raids to clamp down on criminals? Well the results are in and a resounding majority voted in […]
The appeal by the Belizeans for Justice Movement for the closure of business for one day to protest against the level of crime and violence that has ravaged Belize City streets came at a late juncture. A few Belize City-based businesses could not, for logistics purposes, close, but many did support the cause. For this […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you support draconian measures such as curfew and raids to clamp down on criminals? 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.
A business shutdown is being planned for Thursday. Too many lives have been lost, residents are clamouring for urgent and drastic measures to bring order and to put an end to the lawlessness on the streets. Belizeans for Justice is calling on the business community to join the fight against crime by closing shop. It’s […]
A crime wave continues to grip the. The statistics are shocking, since the beginning of September there have been thirteen reported murders; in Belize City alone, seven persons have been killed in fourteen days, including an eight year old girl early on Sunday morning. The public wants urgent action to restore security in the streets. […]
There will be no challenges to any of the major posts in the new executive of the opposition party. The deadline for submission of names was this past Monday and from what we know, John Briceño’s leadership will go uncontested. In the case of the deputies, Dan Silva from the west and Francis Fonseca from […]
The story of the missing children from the San Marcos Village, Toledo, has grabbed the attention of the nation. The siblings had left home in their village to sell fruits in surrounding villages when they disappeared, two days before returning to school. On Tuesday night we asked our viewers if they thought there should be […]
The views expressed on the e-poll does not necessarily reflect the views of this Station. On Thursday we asked the question: Do you feel that the Chief Justice is being treated fairly by the government? Our e-poll shows that sixty-eight percent of the viewers are of the sentiments that the Chief Justice is being treated […]
Developments in the expropriation of Telemedia last August continue to unfold. This morning the Former Chairman of the Executive Committee of Telemedia, Dean Boyce, sat on the couch on Open Your Eyes. He answered many questions; we start first with the most recent action taken by the former owners of Telemedia and according to Boyce, […]
On Tuesday, the judges of the Supreme Court issued a statement, it was one of a kind, prompted by a proposal that has now been deferred by the Bar Association that could have potentially ended in the removal of one sitting Judge. The reason for that proposal: a delay in the delivery of judgements. While […]
And when News Five raised the issue of what next in the judiciary in the context of the possible retirement of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, Elrington had his pick. He singled Justice Manuel Sosa, the judge who was appointed the day before the 1998 general election and then removed with the change of administration. Wilfred […]
There were many issues… and dirty laundry aired at last Friday’s sitting of the House of Representatives. A number of amendments to the constitution were tabled, two that change appointments to key roles in government and are being hotly debated in the public domain. Prime Minister Dean Barrow proposed to allow persons with dual citizenship […]
One area that government is not seeing much opposition is a move to replace the Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final appellate court. Courtenay this morning said he believes that “the abilities and qualities of the C.C.J. are as good if not better than those at the Privy Council”. He […]
The streets of Bagdad may be safer than Belize City tonight as a fourth grenade, aimed at a thick crowd of revelers, interrupts the carnival road march. And at news time tonight two people have been detained by police following what could have had a disastrous ending were it not for a twist of fate […]
The number of murder victims continues to grow. And police today confirm foul play in the death of a man from San Ignacio but have no leads to this latest murder. The body of the victim, twenty-five year old Willie Aguirre, was discovered face down about a hundred yards from the streets in some bushes […]
Messages of condolence continue to pour in from around the world following the death on Saturday of Andy Palacio. And while we in Belize watched with enthusiasm as Andy’s career took off internationally it is only now that we are beginning to realise how far he had taken his music and, along with it, the […]
It’s been a busy week in the media business and now that our vehicles have finally slowed down a bit on their many runs to Corozal, news director, Stewart Krohn found some time to reflect on a few of the many lessons the most recent hurricane experience has hopefully taught us. Stewart Krohn “A lot […]
Viewers may be wondering why I am handling the anchoring duties this week, as well as working as a News Five reporter. The reason is that I am trying hard to fill the shoes of my long time friend and colleague, Jacqueline Woods Godwin. Jackie is out this week because of the sudden death of […]
There are only a handful of people in this country about whom it could be said that without their presence Belize would not be what it is today. Last night one of them died. New’s Five’s Stewart Krohn explains. Stewart Krohn It is difficult to describe the impact that Emory King has had on the […]
Death by hug…the bizarre incident that ended a drunken “girls night out” in Santa Elena has shocked the nation. Reports to News Five are that thirty-two year old Rita Myvette was with her friend, Alma Woodeye and three other women at her one-storey home on Bradley Street in Santa Elena having a party on Friday […]
September was full of them, October has another one, and then November, and of course December brings Christmas. The Belizean calendar is full of holidays. But what does all this time off cost us? Patrick Jones did a little investigating to find out. Patrick Jones, Reporting An ordinary calendar year is comprised of three hundred […]
