There is no need to panic at this point says the National Emergency Management Organization. Out of precaution, NEMO issued an advisory earlier today informing that it is monitoring the potential for development of a broad low pressure area near Belize. The system, should it form over the weekend, is expected to move westward toward […]
According to the NEMO advisory, should the prediction change for the worse, all factors considered, Belize can be facing a significant threat by Tuesday. Nonetheless, Chief Met Officer Cumberbatch reiterated that nothing has formed thus far. Catherine Cumberbatch, Chief Meteorologist “No system has formed so far. There is no tropical depression, there is no […]
The National Emergency Management Organization has issued an early precautionary notice after ongoing computer models are predicting that a tropical system could develop within the region. According to the release, the system may develop somewhere near to Honduras/Nicaragua by the weekend or early next week. This afternoon we called the National Met Service and were […]
A house was destroyed by fire in Belize City. According to residents in the Jane Usher Boulevard area, the two persons who lived inside the house weren’t at home when the fire started in some bushes near the house. Residents say that the fire was set to control the mosquitoes in the area, but the […]
The day did not start and end well for Arlene Gordon, a resident of Lords Bank, Ladyville. At about seven-thirty, a fire erupted inside her house and spread quickly completely destroying the wooden structure and its contents. Fortunately for Gordon, she was able to safely get out of the house. The cause of the blaze […]
The National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO is keeping a close watch on a broad area of low pressure that is currently located over the northwester Caribbean Sea. In an advisory issued late today, NEMO says that the area continues to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms but further development is expected to be slow as it […]
There was loss of life and property from the devastating fire on Caye Caulker over the weekend which also displaced fourteen persons. The cause of the fire is still undetermined but we have been reliably informed that one person was detained but later released. Elmer Chub perished in the fire and his lifeless body was […]
At Caye Caulker today, the community is picking up the pieces following a deadly fire. Early on Saturday morning, the quiet in the village was interrupted when a two-storey commercial building, which housed Nando’s Golf Cart Rentals and Apartments, erupted in fire. Inside one of the apartments was Elmer Chub, a mechanic from San José […]
NEMO officials were on the island today, working with the Caye Caulker Village Council and fire officials to assist victims. Over the weekend, NEMO’s Central Region Coordinator Al Westby travelled to the island with a team to provide relief. Temporary housing was provided and much-needed supplies were transported to the island with the help of […]
Following the blaze, Belize Electricity Limited issued a statement expressing condolences to the Chub family. B.E.L. says that it takes its role seriously in providing safe and reliable electricity and its officials met with Chairlady Seleny Villanueva Pot and fire officials. The chairlady says that one of the challenges that villagers face during the time […]
Earlier you heard of the fire in Caye Caulker in which a mechanic lost his life. There was another fire over the weekend. In Maya Mopan, Belmopan, the Reid family lost household items to a fire which started in the upper flat of the building, in an apartment used by her niece. Fire personnel say […]
A snorkeling tour goes wrong at Rendezvous Caye this morning as an elderly tourist lost her life. According to reports, thirteen tourists were on a snorkeling trip at the caye located just forty minutes away from Belize City. Sixty-three-year-old Sandra Corbin Keiser was part of the group as they snorkeled around ten o’clock in the […]
Seven persons have been displaced after an early morning fire on San Pedro gutted the wooden two-storey apartment they called home. Just before six o’clock as Vanina Alpuche and her family were sleeping, they were awaken by neighbours and soon after realized that the ground floor of the house was on fire. Alpuche says that […]
The body of twenty-year-old Denis Enrique Lux Matus was fished out of the river in western Belize this morning. Lux Matus is from the border town of Melchor de Mencos. He went missing on Saturday and on Sunday his family posted on social media, that they were concerned and looking for him. According to the […]
A tragic accident occurred before noon today inside the Belize Civic Center; two persons succumbed and others were injured and in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. While the number of injured men has been varying, it has been confirmed that four sustained injuries resulting from the fall. The group of men was standing on […]
This afternoon, the Belize Infrastructure Limited issued a release on the mishap at the Civic Center. BIL confirms that two persons died and four others were injured in the accident which was a result of a platform failure that connects the scaffold at a heightened level. The men were working on the installation of acoustical […]
As the Bahamas recovers from the devastation of Hurricane Dorian, a brewing storm system is posing a new threat to the northern islands of the Bahamas. Meteorologists say it could likely become a tropical storm over the weekend. In Belize, the National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO is keeping a close eye on all forming storms. […]
As the dust begins to settle, waters start receding, and the sky begins to clear, the level of devastation that Hurricane Dorian brought to The Bahamas is becoming clear. Hurricane Dorian pulverized The Bahamans for two days, lashing the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco with catastrophic winds and relentless rain. It was the strongest […]
Belize has joined other nations and international organization in providing relief to The Bahamas post Hurricane Dorian which caused extensive destruction on the island on September first as a Category Five storm. Cabinet agreed to make a contribution of one hundred thousand US dollars to The Bahamas to assist in the recovery efforts. Belize Electricity […]
The Belize Red Cross Society in response to the devastation left by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas and in solidarity with the thousands of thousands of persons affected, today launched its monetary appeal. The northern islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama have been catastrophically impacted by Hurricane Dorian, the strongest and most sustained Category Five […]
Five people were confirmed dead on Abaco Island in the Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian continued on its ravaging path. The Category Four storm came to a standstill as it pummelled Grand Bahama Island all day. As many as thirteen thousand homes in the Bahamas may have been destroyed or severely damaged. Hurricane Dorian unleashed massive […]
The Belize Consulate in Florida has issued a statement in respect to the approaching hurricane, Dorian. Hurricane Dorian gained strength in the Atlantic Wednesday night, and millions of people in Florida were warned to be ready for its impact. Dorian is expected to become a Category four storm before hitting Florida. The Belize Consulate advises Belizeans living there to […]
Traffic came to a grinding halt this afternoon on the Burrell Boom Bridge. A drunk driver collided into an oil truck which then crashed into other vehicles, including a bus filled with tourists and two military vehicles. It was a mass casualty event that looked like real life, but fortunately Tropical Alliance was testing its […]
Belize has been spared of hurricanes in the recent past, but the National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO is not letting its guard down. NEMO is strongly advising government line ministries and its emergency committees to convene meetings and identify necessary logistics in their plans as the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea are now showing signs […]
Around eight o’clock, a fire broke inside an elevated wooden house in Lord’s Bank Village on Sunday night. The home was occupied by an elderly person who escaped unhurt. The blaze spread quickly through the building, which could not be saved and by the time fire-fighters arrived on the scene, the building was gutted. Police […]
