A purloined email has cast doubt on the credibility of a poll released on Monday by a pair of university researchers. Dr. Joseph Iyo of the University of Belize and Galen’s Marion Cayetano told journalists at a press conference that the poll, which showed the P.U.P. running six points ahead of the U.D.P., had been […]
But aside from any possible political contamination, real or imagined, the question of the poll’s methodology has not gone unchallenged. The biggest criticism is that of sampling. Unlike the SPEAR poll, which selected phone numbers at random, the Iyo/Cayetano pollsters simply approached people in various localities to which they were assigned. At Monday’s presentation Reynaldo […]
The manhunt for Lenny Bennett, also know as Andrew Bennett, continues tonight in connection with a shooting that has left his ex-common-law wife with a badly damaged leg. Bennett came out of prison in September of last year after serving a two-year sentence for drug trafficking. Since that time he had reportedly been harassing Christina […]
Police were in the right place at the right time on Wednesday night and apprehended a man shortly after he stole a bicycle. Twenty-nine year old Stackle Monsanto of Kraal Road was caught following the incident on Cran Street and has been charged with Theft. Police say they were on patrol around eight-thirty last night […]
His two young nephews were almost burnt to death in a fire that destroyed his sister’s house on Hibiscus Lane on Sunday morning. And although it is still not clear if thirty-six year old Ernest Billary is mentally fit to stand trial, today police charged him with arson. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie denied him bail […]
In November of 2006, seventeen year old Norman Mckenzie was charged with the attempted murder of his brother-in-law, Simon Castillo. On January twenty-first of this year he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of Use of Deadly Means of Harm. But McKenzie changed his mind last Friday before Justice Troadio Gonzalez and said he shot […]
A team of election observers is due to arrive in the country on Friday. According to a Commonwealth press release, the three person Expert Team, headed by former Jamaican Foreign Minister K.D. Knight, will observe the election preparations, voting, counting and delivery of the results, as well as the overall electoral environment. The other members […]
In our last newscast we took a look at Belize City’s Pickstock division, a constituency so small that on a windy day you could probably kick a football from one end to the other. Today Ann-Marie Williams reports from the other end of the geographic spectrum in Stann Creek West. Rodwell Ferguson, P.U.P. Incumbent, Stann […]
There’s still a week to go until election day and by now most Belizeans have heard the respective campaign songs so many times that you’re either singing along … or covering your ears. But whether you think the tunes are sickening or sweet, it’s a good bet that the beats are here to stay. News […]
The press release came out of the blue late this evening and we are still not clear on exactly what it means. Better I read it verbatim. “The government has announced that Belize is boycotting the upcoming World Cup Qualifying football Match to be held in Guatemala City on the sixth February 2008 between Belize […]
A pedestrian has been killed in a hit and run on the Western Highway but the suspected driver has been arrested and charged. According to police, sometime before eight Tuesday morning, forty-two year old Camelo Rash of Cotton Tree Village was walking east on the right side of the road when he was hit by […]
A woman is recuperating from a gunshot wound after her ex-common law husband shot her in the presence of her current boyfriend. Twenty-one year old Christine Zetina told police that she and her boyfriend, Kareem Young, had just dropped off his mother on the Northern Highway and they were riding their bicycles back through Ladyville […]
Accused mugger Dennis McKoy has more questions to answer tonight. The twenty year old, already on remand for four counts of robbery in Belize City, is wanted in Dangriga for several armed jackings in that southern town. It seems that after his picture was shown on TV Monday night, several crime victims came forward to […]
Investment is the lifeblood of any economy and Belize is no exception. BELTRAIDE, the quasi-government body that deals with investment promotion and facilitation, today took the opportunity to take pride in its accomplishments and point to the future. News Five’s Marion Ali has more. Marion Ali, Reporting The highlight of this morning’s introduction of BELTRAIDE’s […]
One of the major areas of new investment anticipated over the next five years involves the petroleum industry. Already the nation’s largest export, oil is expected to provide an extra boost to government revenues for at least the next decade. What is not clear, however, is exactly how that hard currency will be spent. According […]
It’s a military force with a large mission and less than large resources. But for the last thirty years the Belize Defence Force has, for the most part, risen to the occasion. This week the B.D.F. is celebrating the beginning of its fourth decade with a series of anniversary events. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has […]
It’s a constituency that’s never gone anything but blue … but that hasn’t stopped the two candidates from campaigning as if the election could hinge on a single vote. And guess what? In 2008 anything’s possible. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from the Pickstock Division. Godfrey Smith, P.U.P. Candidate, Pickstock “I think I have established […]
For the last few years the conventional wisdom, based on the results of municipal elections and reinforced by various public opinion polls, has the Peoples United Party as a definite underdog in the upcoming general elections. But a new poll, taken over the weekend and released this morning turns that expectation upside down. News Five’s […]
There’s no way to tell what may have influenced all those voters sampled in the latest poll, but one major election pledge by the P.U.P. involving free computers for students seems to have struck a chord with the children … and their parents. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports on the formal introduction of the programme. […]
The money required for the laptops may seem steep but it’s chump change compared to the thirty-three million plus that G.O.B. was on the hook for with its guarantee of the Universal Health Services debt. Today Prime Minister Musa defended the deal under which the bank guarantee was abolished but a different kind of financial […]
In news just in two men have been injured in a shooting in the Port Loyola area. Police report that after five this evening twenty year old Kareem Gillett and seventeen year old Kyle Lambey were wounded when a man approached them on Cesar Ridge Road and opened fire with a number of shots. Gillett […]
It began with a jealous rage which led to a fight … and ended with two brothers in the hospital. The altercation occurred last night sometime before midnight through an alley off North Creek in Belize City. When it was over, twenty-five year old Dwight Palacio got the worst of it with a stab wound […]
A Salvadoran man from San Andres Village in the Corozal District will spend the next eight and a half years behind bars after making the mistake of robbing his neighbour. Forty-three year old Juan Mejia was arraigned today in Corozal Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to Aggravated Burglary, Possession of an Imitation Firearm and […]
A taxi man from Corozal Town is dead following a head-on collision between his minivan and a car on the Northern Highway this morning. The mishap occurred near Ranchito Village around seven thirty and claimed the life of Alvin Leslie of Seventh Avenue. Police say Leslie was heading towards Orange Walk Town when the car, […]
The value of the assistance probably amounts to less than what the U.S. government spends in Iraq and Afghanistan in a few minutes … but fortunately, Belize is at peace and the latest aid from Uncle Sam is decidedly non-lethal. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the story from Ladyville. Robert Dieter, U.S. Ambassador to Belize […]
