Just after seven on Wednesday night, a fire broke inside a room at Conch Shell Hotel Inn located on the beach front of Barrier Reef Drive in San Pedro Town. First to arrive at the scene were police who observed that room four on the second floor of the two storey building was engulfed in […]
A fire destroyed a wooden house in Belize City on Thursday night. It happened on Aloe Vera Street, a few minutes before nine. The house was engulfed in flames for thirty minutes before firefighters extinguished the blaze. Neighbors told News Five that they heard crackling sounds just before they saw smoke and flames inside the […]
A freak storm tore through Punta Gorda on Sunday night, tottering a number of trees in town and causing a power outage. According to several reports from that municipality, the severe weather was at its strongest between eight o’clock and nine o’clock last evening, damage several structures near the newly-built stalls at the P.G. market. […]
On Thursday night, just after eight, a vendor’s van was destroyed by fire in Belize City. Fifty-eight-year-old Barrington Usher of Saint Matthews Village told police that he was driving the van on Chetumal Street when it burst into flames. Usher reported that he saw a police check-point ahead of him, but traffic was flowing slowly […]
An American retiree drowned on Thursday afternoon in San Pedro. He has been identified as sixty-six-year-old Steven Vorhaus of Colorado. News Five has learned that Vorhaus left on a boat along with other tourists to the B and D Dive location near the barrier reef. The group began to dive and upon reaching some forty-five […]
A family in Roaring Creek Village has been left homeless following a devastating fire. The blaze consumed the house in which they lived for seventeen long years. It is believed that the fire was caused by an electrical fault displacing the Arnold family. In the aftermath of the fire, the Arnold’s need help. Here is […]
A house was completely destroyed by fire in Roaring Creek today. Shortly after four this evening, a fire broke out inside the house of forty-four-year-old Denise Arnold in the ‘Another World’ area in the village. No one was at home at the time of the blaze and nothing was saved. We’ll have more in Thursday’s […]
In a matter of minutes, a family of eight was displaced by fire in the village of Georgeville, Cayo at the start of the weekend. It is believed a four-year-old boy accidentally caused the fire to start when he was playing with matches inside one of the bedrooms. Fire-fighters tried to contain the blaze, but […]
A group of U.S. nationals, who arrived on a scheduled cruise ship call this morning, had a huge scare. The visitors were heading to the Belize Zoo when the bus they were travelling in, burst into flames near Hattieville before they reached their destination on the George Price Highway. The fire sent a plume of […]
On Friday, a fire completely destroyed a wooden house in Dangriga. Around seven-thirty that morning, fire broke out at a residence on George Price Drive, but though firefighters responded quickly, they were unable to contain the blaze. Today, police told the media that investigation into the cause of the fire is still underway. ACP […]
A house in Dangriga was destroyed by fire early this morning. The fire broke out at a residence on the George Price Boulevard. Firefighters responded quickly but were unable to contain the blaze before it consumed the twenty-two by twenty-four feet wooden structure. House owner, Jason Cacho says that the fire began at around seven-thirty […]
Last Wednesday, we reported on a fire that wiped out a boutique in Belmopan. The fire started on Tuesday night just before seven o’clock in a storeroom of Fashion and More Boutique on the lower flat of the James Plaza on Mountain View Boulevard. That fire completely destroyed everything in the store. The day after […]
A fire destroyed a family home in the early hours of Monday morning. The Nah family was asleep inside their home on Tate Street in Orange Walk Town when one of them was awakened by noises in the kitchen. The family escaped from their home with only the clothes on their backs as they watched […]
A fire on Tuesday evening gutted a store at a shopping complex in Belmopan. The cause of the blaze is under investigation, but a few days ago, electrical issues plagued the building. The store manager says it all started in one of the units on the ground floor. The firemen battled the raging flames from […]
A fire on Saturday night in Belize City has left an elderly man homeless. The property on George Street contained three wooden structures, two of which were gutted by the inferno. “Pappy Felix” lived in the building at the rear and it is suspected that a mental health patient, who occupied the abandoned property at […]
A young man lost his life over the weekend in Red Bank Village where he had gone swimming with a group of friends in the nearby river. Jamie Cayetano reportedly entered the water ahead of his friends and did not resurface. When they were subsequently able to bring Cayetano to shore and attempt to resuscitate […]
There was a fire on Tuesday morning at Old Belize located at mile five on the George Price Highway. A wooden structure near the entrance of the compound was partially destroyed by the blaze; luckily firefighters were able to extinguish the fire before it could spread to adjacent structures. According to the security guard on […]
The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season begins on Saturday and will run through to November thirtieth. The forecast for this year suggests that tropical cyclone activity will be near normal in the Atlantic Basin which comprises the North Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It is predicted that there will be anywhere […]
Lieutenant Gregory Soberanis of the Belize Coast Guard led an informational session to discuss the Coast Guard’s state of readiness for the 2019 Atlantic Basin hurricane season. Lt. Gregory Soberanis, Belize National Coast Guard “One of the first things that we do is to activate what we call the recall system where we h […]
The 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season begins on Saturday and for the next six months the City Emergency Management Organization will remain on standby should a storm head towards the Old Capital. This morning, the Belize City Council officially opened the hurricane season with a press conference during which the public was updated on the existing […]
A teenager drowned over the weekend in the Valley of Peace Community out west. On Saturday afternoon, a group of friends was socializing near the bank of the Belize River when Carlos Reyes leapt into the river. He did not resurface and minutes later a friend went diving for him. His body was retrieved and […]
A fire over the weekend destroyed a popular DVD store in Ladyville. The fire reportedly broke out in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Albert Flowers of A and J DVD Store says when he arrived on the scene, his business had completely burnt to the ground. Hipolito Novelo has the story. Hipolito Novelo, […]
An explosion on Sunday, May fifth at the Ocean Ferry Water Taxi terminal in Belize City claimed the lives of eight-year-old Kimberly Melisa Guy and ten-year-old Jamiri Yasmin Guy. The girls were with their mother and her boyfriend and were about to leave the terminal en route to Caye Caulker where they had recently begun […]
There was a third loss of life up north. A construction worker drowned in Corozal Town sometime between Monday and Tuesday. The father of two packed his tool bag and left on his bike to look for work. That was the last time that his family saw him until his body was found this morning […]
A residence situated next door to Unity Presbyterian Church on Antelope Street Extension was set on fire twice overnight by someone intent on reducing the elevated wooden structure to cinders. Sometime around eleven p.m. on Thursday, a neighbor observed the rear of the property on fire. He immediately sprung into action and with assistance from […]
