Fire destroyed a home in Saint Matthews Village over the weekend. Police say that a wooden home and all its contents, valued at a total of twenty-thousand dollars, were wiped out by a blaze just after five on Sunday evening. Fire officials are still investigating to determine the cause of the blaze. ACP Joseph Myvett […]
A seven point seven magnitude earthquake struck earlier today about eighty miles from Jamaica, shaking several Caribbean islands, including Cayman and as far away as Miami. There were several aftershocks, including one the U.S. Geological Survey said had a magnitude of six point one. Based on images shared online, the earthquake caused minor damage in […]
Today’s earthquake was preceded by magnitudes six point four and five point eight quakes that struck Puerto Rico. That territory experienced a number of aftershocks and experienced significant damage. Earlier this month the UWI Seismic Research Center in Trinidad said that recent earthquakes that rocked Puerto serve as a reminder that the region must always […]
A house was destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon. The fire broke out at around two o’clock at a house located on the Cerro Road in Punta Gorda and owned by Angel Meras. The wooden structure was completely engulfed and destroyed in a matter of minutes. While two persons were inside the house at the […]
The Belize Coast Guard says that the chance of finding Alison Mackenzie alive is nil. They wrapped up their search mission on Tuesday evening, after they widened the search area. As the Coast Guard ended its search for the missing woman, the Belize Police Department received an offer of help from the F.B.I. As we […]
There was fire in Belize City just before two o’clock this morning. No one was at the house when it went up in flames. The Fire Department managed to contain the blaze before it spread to a nearby building on Tamarind Street on the Jane Usher Boulevard. The home owner says the cause of the […]
Fire victim Elena Reina remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. in a critical, but stable condition. The thirty-three-year-old mother of three was sleeping inside a house on Flamboyant Street on January second when a fire broke inside the wooden structure. The blaze spread quickly to engulf the house, but luckily, Reina escaped, but not before sustaining […]
Five days of water and electricity outages on the island of Caye Caulker, have resulted in massive financial losses. While the two utilities have been restored, the economic impact is adding up. At a meeting with residents today, convened by the Belize Tourism Board, the losses are expected to exceed one million dollars. The private […]
The New Year did not start well for two Belize City families. Their houses on Flamboyant Street were destroyed by a fire that spread quickly gutting the two wooden structures. As many as eight persons are displaced and a mother of three is clinging to life at the K.H.M.H. Elena Reina was sound asleep when […]
New Year’s Day is usually a time for celebration and a day to look forward to exciting things in the year ahead. But for one family in Cotton Tree Village, 2020 began with an unexpected misfortune. A fire destroyed the family home and they lost just about everything inside. Here’s the story with Andrea Polanco. […]
As you heard just now, the Samoza family lost all their belongings in a blaze that damaged their family home. They are now in need of roofing materials and other items to rebuild their lives. The fire was caused by faulty electrical wires and the Fire Department says that families need to do more to […]
Tragedy struck two families over the Christmas holidays in Orange Walk and Dangriga when their homes were destroyed by fire. Just before nine p.m. on Christmas Day, police responded to a report of a fire on Santa Familia Street in Orange Walk Town where a wooden house was engulfed in flames. Daniel Novelo reportedly left […]
There was also loss of life in the west over the weekend. In a freak accident, around nine-thirty p.m. on Friday, police were called to a work site just outside of Georgeville on the George Price Highway, between miles sixty and sixty-one. William Orellana, a forty-five-year-old resident of a Benque Viejo, was standing between a […]
Tragedy struck a family in Silk Grass, Stann Creek District, on Monday afternoon. Omar and Efijenia Lobos lost their three-year old son in a fire that totally gutted their small wooden house in the village. Inside the house on a bunk bed was Isaias. The fire swept quickly and the young boy could not be […]
A fire broke out on Independence Street in San Ignacio Town over the weekend. On Saturday morning, Carmita Salazar was in her home when she was alerted that her snack shop located in the same yard was engulfed in flames. Salazar along with neighbours fought the blaze while fire-fighters arrived. However, the snack shop was […]
The family of thirty-two-year-old Silvia Maas lost her house and belongings in a fire on Tuesday afternoon. Maas was not at home when the blaze erupted and only rubbles remain where she once lived. The building is the property of Omar Guerra of Benque Viejo Town; it had no electricity nor was it insured. News […]
A fire consumed the house of Maria Esther Garcia in Orange Walk Town. The single mother and her three children were not at home when the blaze swept through the wooden building destroying all the contents inside. Garcia wakes up early in the mornings to sell to earn her living but on Sunday morning, all […]
A family of three was displaced following a fire this afternoon on Arlington Drive in Belize City. Charles Castillo believes that his mentally-ill brother is responsible. The National Fire Service was notified and responded quickly to prevent the fire from spreading to nearby structures. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Just after […]
There was another fire earlier this week that gutted a wooden house off Ordonez Street in Belize City. Mauricio Garay reported to police that his newly built house did not have utilities installed as yet, but in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, it was reduced to ashes. Reports from the area are that a […]
While with the Fire Chief earlier today, the media got an update on the Independence Day fire on Caye Caulker during which one person lost his life in the blaze. Elmer Chub, a mechanic from San Jose Village, Orange Walk, perished in the fire that erupted inside a two-storey commercial building, which housed Nando’s Golf […]
A fire quickly swept through a wooden house in the New Site area of Benque Viejo Del Carmen. A family of three lost all they owned in the blaze that erupted around nine o’clock on Monday night. Fortunately, the family members were not inside the building; the house owner was alerted of the fire, but […]
A search for the missing Belize City youth proved fruitless this morning. C.I.B. requested the assistance of the Belize Coast Guard to conduct a search at Burdon Canal along the Philip Goldson Highway. Operations Officer, Lieutenant Roque Canul told News Five that officers found new clue of Jaswant Brooks. On the Phone: Lieutenant Roque Canul, Operations […]
A flash flood has displaced close to fifty families in the west. NEMO personnel have been on the ground since early this morning to help affected families. Reporter Andrea Polanco tells us more about the flood and what NEMO is doing to help the victims. Andrea Polanco, Reporting This is what it looks like […]
On Friday morning, Belize City police visited the home of Bruce Reneau where they conducted a search of the property. During the raid, they discovered three live rounds of ammunition, as well as Taurus brand thirty-eight revolver. Reneau, as well as a female minor who was in his company, was detained pending investigation. Several hours […]
Three-year-old Oscar Bonilla drowned when he fell into a well in Santa Cruz Village over the weekend. The toddler was last seen playing with another child when his mother went outside to the kitchen. When she returned moments later, she could not locate the infant and went in search of him. Sadly, he was found […]
