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 […]
