On last night’s newscast she was described by her own relatives as nothing less than a liar, schemer and perhaps even a killer. But today, Cherrymae Howard, the woman whose court testimony sent her cousin to jail for twenty years and allegedly arranged to have another cousin killed after he beat her, told Channel 5 […]
One death has resulted from the traffic accident that occurred on Sunday in which a white Toyota pickup flipped over with its sixteen occupants. Francisca Chacon fought for her life for two days in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital but today she succumbed to her head injuries. While her widowed husband Umberto has been released […]
In the wake of the overloaded pickup tragedy News 5 sought to find out exactly what the law is regarding the carrying of passengers in the back of a truck. As often happens when dealing with officialdom we got something of a runaround. No one in either the police or traffic department would comment on […]
A resident of San Joaquin in the Corozal district was shot at his home on Sunday night. Around eight-thirty Manolo Magana went downstairs of the house to tie the family dog when he was shot twice by assailants and at least one of the bullets caught him in the stomach. Magana, a biology teacher at […]
Teachers and students of Central Christian Primary School on Freetown Road are today better able to access information with the click of a mouse. The school received a fully-loaded computer and printer this afternoon from Pickstock PUP chairman and political aspirant Bobby Usher. He made the presentation to Vice Principal Thomas Zetina who said the […]
The donation of a computer in the Pickstock division should come as no surprise during this season of heightened political activity. Bobby Usher is locked in a tense battle with Attorney General Godfrey Smith over who will be the PUP candidate to contest the 2003 general elections in Pickstock. Coming on its heels of accusations […]
The government today released more information on its project to bring Belize into the computer age and at the same time kick our favourite telecom monopoly where it hurts. A government press bulletin says that the Ministry of Education has launched its effort to train teachers to use the five thousand computers that it is […]
It is the latest in a not too long line of screen epics filmed on location in Belize. “After the Strom” was shot in Placencia, San Pedro and Belize City last year and makes its television debut tonight on the USA cable network. Last year around this time News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited the set […]
