Crystal Coleman is asking for the public’s help. She is one of the victims of the apartment fire that happened last week Friday night at the corners of Partridge and Haulze Streets. As we’ve reported, a fire destroyed an eight-room apartment complex and displaced as many as twenty people. The Fire Department reported that the […]
In the height of nominations on Wednesday, a fire swept through a Belize City house, rendering the Miles Family of Fabers Road homeless. The fire started in the lower flat of the two-storey building and spread to the upper flat where Lennox Miles and Janet Wade reside. Fire fighters believe that it was in fact […]
As many as twenty persons are without roofs over their heads tonight. A fire on Friday night completely destroyed an apartment complex located on Partridge Street in Belize City. The fire started at apartment one where a four-year-old child was playing with a lighter; the blaze quickly spread throughout the building which housed eight families. […]
There was a second fire in Belize City that gutted a wooden house belonging to the Ramclam family. On Monday night, the Ramclam family was asleep when the fire broke at the house located on Mahogany Street. Fire fighters managed to contain the blaze from spreading, but the Ramclam’s lost everything. The cause of the […]
The Yucatan Peninsula is bracing for a major hurricane. Hurricane Delta is a now a category four storm expected to direct impact with Cancun and Cozumel. According to meteorological reports, this is the second strong storm of the year in the Atlantic basin and the storm may strengthen before it makes landfall in the early […]
A fire at an abandoned house came dangerously close to an apartment building occupied by twelve families. The fire erupted at a wooden house at the corner of Curassow Street around midday. The flames soon consumed the house spreading dangerously close to Coto Lumber Yard. Fire fighters arrived on the nick of time and were […]
Twenty-nine-year-old Erica Belisle lost her personal belongings as well as her house in a fire in Hattieville. It is the second time that she has been affected by fire. Belisle was staying in the city because of her job and learnt of the fire on Friday morning via a telephone call. She says she suspects […]
There was a fire on Independence Day in Belize City. Police say that around three-thirty on the morning of September twenty-first they were notified of a fire on Linda Vista Avenue in Belize City. The fire destroyed a wooden home and some vehicles in the yard. According to the police, no one was in the […]
There’s also a small fire to report in the north. This fire was set on the Caledonia Police Station. ACP Joseph Myvett says that the officers who work at the station were out at the time when someone set garbage ablaze on the building on Sunday night just before seven-thirty. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
The 2020 Hurricane Season has exhausted all the named storms presented at the start of the season. Today, when Tropical Storm Wilfred formed, the National Hurricane Center had to turn to the Greek Alphabet and they already have one named storm from that list, Alpha. This is only the second time in recorded history that […]
As Gordon explained just now, they need additional names because of how active the season is. Today, he went on to explain just why we are seeing this heightened level of activity that we last saw some fifteen years ago. On the Phone: Ronald Gordon, Acting Chief Meteorologist “At the start of the season, […]
Tropical Storm Nana made landfall as a weak Category One hurricane in southern Belize around midnight on September second. Hardest hit were the agro and aquaculture industries and according to NEMO Minister Edmond Castro, Hurricane Nana caused damages to the tune of approximately five point four million dollars. And while much attention is being given […]
The National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO, has completed a preliminary assessment of damages incurred as a result of Tropical Storm Nana which made landfall as a weak Category One hurricane in southern Belize last Thursday. Cumulatively, a total of six million dollars was lost to the natural disaster which wreaked significant havoc in the agro […]
In the wake of the storm, government has since reached out to victims in need of humanitarian assistance, particularly in the Stann Creek District where several villages, including Silk Grass, Hopkins and Sittee River, were most affected. Edmond ‘Clear the Land’ Castro, NEMO Minister “As for the humanitarian assistance, we’re looking at that has […]
A woman remains hospitalized tonight after she was caught in a house fire on Thursday night. The fire erupted at the residence of Kendrick Nunez on Unity Street in Belize City. He was away at work and his common-law-wife was asleep when the fire began inside the bedroom. Everything inside the house was destroyed. Nunez, […]
There is another anniversary of an unforgettable event; It is recorded that more than three thousand persons died in the worst terrorist attack on the United States, nineteen years ago. Four high-jacked airlines were crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Forty passengers also fought and prevented United Flight 93 from crashing into […]
Hattieville resident Melissa Jones needs your help. Jones says that her house collapsed on Friday, trapping her and her two children inside. Luckily she was rescued by police officers from the Hattieville Police Formation. Jones says that the area experienced thunderstorm-like conditions and she believes the strong winds caused the house to fall down. She […]
An established funeral parlour went up in flames on Friday; a house in the same yard on Freetown Road in Belize City was also destroyed by the blaze. The business and property were owned by Sanjay Pilgrim Senior. Investigations are ongoing about the origins of the fire. Today Pilgrim Senior told News Five’s Hipolito Novelo […]
A raging fire broke after midnight on Freetown Road, Belize City. Smoke billowed across the area as the flames quickly consumed a funeral parlor as well as house, both located in the same yard. The fire erupted in the bedroom of the house spreading to Sanjay Pilgrim Caskets and Wreaths Shop destroying both. The fire […]
The Banana Growers Association continues to carry out assessment of the damages caused by Hurricane Nana. The damages are expected to be in the millions, but a specific amount will be known sometime next week. Hardest hit were banana farms in the Stann Creek District. Today, the P.U.P. expressed solidarity with those who did suffer […]
Hurricane Nana dissipated near Guatemala’s border with Mexico after making landfall in Belize. Assessments of damages are ongoing in the agricultural sector and work has commenced on the ground to clean up debris that has been strewn across communities in southern Belize where the storm made landfall and had the most impact. According to a […]
According to Bowman, because the effects of the storm have been localised to Stann Creek and Punta Gorda, the Ministry of Human Development and NEMO are leading the efforts for disaster response. The Belize Red Cross, however, stands ready to provide any additional support where needed. Lily Bowman, Director General, Belize Red Cross “In […]
Hurricane Nana moved across southern Belize with a rapid trajectory causing far less damage than expected. It could have been devastating, but instead Belizeans woke up this morning with a huge sigh of relief in the aftermath of the storm. Belize emerged from the storm with no loss of life and destruction to property has […]
This morning, a team from the National Emergency Management Organization attached to the Stann Creek office was deployed to the southern parts of district where a complete damage assessment was to be undertaken. The purpose, according to Doctor Tanya Nunez, is for NEMO to be able to provide necessary support in rebuilding and repairing damaged […]
It’s been nineteen years since a hurricane has devastated Punta Gorda, Toledo; that was back in October 2001 when Hurricane Iris, a category four hurricane made landfall near Monkey River. Back then, homes were destroyed, streets flooded and trees uprooted so even though Nana developed into a category one hurricane, residents were bracing for its […]
