There were two small house fires in Mahogany Heights on Wednesday night. Police say that no one was at home at the time of the first fire around seven. A passerby saw the smoke inside the house and managed to put it out quickly. A short while after, another house was observed on fire. That […]
Last month at least three vehicles were intentionally set on fire in Punta Gorda. Police have been trying to solve the case of the burning vehicles but they haven’t had much luck in nabbing the serial arsonist. And on Wednesday night an arsonist struck again; this time, torching a vehicle and motorcycle. Unlike the other […]
On Monday we reported about thirty-one-year-old William Vasquez who was killed while working on a construction site on the Chial Road. Reports are that Vasquez accidentally made contact with a high voltage wire and was electrocuted, but there are allegations that there is some negligence on the work-site that led to his death. Today we […]
A fire completely destroyed a family home in Santa Elena on Saturday. The house, located at number seven George Price Highway, just before the Hawksworth Bridge, quickly burnt to the ground and residents say some of the fault may be on an “illegal” structure built in the middle of the alleyway. The concrete structure with […]
Just now you heard the August family complain that the structure built in the alleyway impeded the fire-fighters’ access to the burning house. It could have been worst had the fire not been contained because there are several homes next to each other. Well, as you’ve seen the residents took action and knocked down the […]
Almost a month ago, the processing plant at the Belize Aquaculture Limited near Placencia caught fire. The inferno created a menacing black, thick cloud of smoke which could have been seen by the neighboring villages of Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa. The fire also emitted traces of ammonia and chlorine into the air, prompting NEMO […]
Disaster struck a family in the wee hours of this morning. A fire gutted the home of Kirk Davis Senior and his family, including Virginia Garnett who we met back in 2017 when she gave birth to triplets. Everything was lost in the inferno, and the family was able to escape with their lives and […]
Police say an arsonist set a vehicle on fire in Punta Gorda sometime around one on Sunday morning. The pick-up truck was in a parking lot at a shopping center when fire was seen coming from the front passenger seat. Police recovered a bottle with liquid substance suspected to be kerosene. There have been at […]
A family of three is staying with relatives and friends tonight after the place they’ve called home for decades collapsed with them inside. The incident occurred just after six o’clock this morning on Marigold Lane in Belize City. The Flowers family is now seeking assistance from the public to rebuild. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. […]
A major disaster was averted at midday thanks to quick thinking on the part of several tenants who also occupy the House of Shotokan building on Princess Margaret Drive. All indications are that a small fire had broken out in a kitchen at the rear of the dojo. While employees at the other end of […]
A string of automotive fires in Punta Gorda on Wednesday morning has residents on edge and investigators working diligently to crack these most recent cases of arson. Vehicles belonging to Christon Foster, Patrick Avila and Burlington Jones were all destroyed by fire just before dawn on February sixth and police are now trying to determine […]
A fire erupted inside a storeroom at the Civic Center shortly after midnight on Thursday. When police responded to the scene, they met personnel from the fire department in the process of extinguishing the flames. According to Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, the cause of the fire may have been some old drums stowed inside the […]
Today, the Lemus/Vargas family of Las Flores in the outskirts of Belmopan laid their loved one to rest. Thirty-four-year-old Angelino Lemus was discovered dead on Monday in the river near a golf course in Roaring Creek Village, Cayo. The construction worker, who lived at the corner Florida and Roses Streets in Las Flores area, went […]
A strong earthquake hit southern Mexico this morning. Fortunately, there is no reported loss of life or major injuries and infrastructural damage. The quake scared people, some evacuated their homes and others recorded swaying buildings. Mexican media is reporting that at least one school received minor damage as the tremors rocked across the southern state. […]
Fire officials are still investigating the cause of the fire that destroyed the processing plant at the Belize Aquaculture Limited on the Placencia Road. The fire broke out on Monday evening and the blaze grew to a threatening size as fire-fighters were told to stand down and allow the building to burn through the night. […]
The National Fire Service continues to investigate the fire that broke out at Belize Aquaculture Limited near Placencia on Monday evening. We understand fire officials are still on the scene investigating the cause of the inferno that darkened the skies over Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa villages. It is expected that the fire investigation will […]
A raging fire broke out at the Belize Aquaculture Limited this afternoon. News Five has learned that fire erupted at around two o’clock. An eyewitness informed our newsroom that three firefighters arrived at the scene at around four-thirty-eight- more than two hours after. Our newsroom was also informed that after quickly examining the situation, the […]
Police are investigating the drowning of a one-year-old baby boy in southern Belize. On Tuesday, Independence Police visited the polyclinic where Christopher Daniel Cruz was seen motionless. According to the child’s mother, she left her baby in the care of his grandfather in Bella Vista Village, Toledo District. She would later find baby Christopher floating […]
On Monday we reported on the fire that destroyed one small wooden home in the Conch Shell Bay area. A mother and her daughter were living at the house up to the time of the fire – but they’ve been left without a roof over their head since eight on Sunday night. As you heard […]
Fire destroyed a house in Belize City on Monday night. The blaze was seen coming out of the house after seven-thirty that night in the Conch Shell Bay area. A woman and her daughter were living there at the time and fortunately escaped unhurt. The fire could have been worse, considering the proximity of the […]
A man was rescued from a burning house in northern Belize. Police say the thirty-nine-year-old man was found semi-unconscious inside his house when neighbours ran to help. The wooden and zinc home was engulfed in flames around two-thirty on Thursday afternoon, but quick action saved the man’s life. ACP Joseph Myvett tells us more. […]
The Belize Red Cross donated a trove of equipment to NEMO today in Belize City. The Red Cross says that that donation was made possible through a grant they obtained through the U.S. CARSI-E.S.F. programme for disaster risk reduction. The Red Cross says the donation is about strengthening their partnership to better serve communities in […]
A one-day training workshop took place on Monday in Belize City where officials from government agencies and N.G.O.s worked together on open street mapping. Open street maps are completely user-generated and run by the community. In this case, the Belize Red Cross has begun the process of gather data to update the maps in Belize […]
A fire has left one man without a house in Ladyville Village. The thirty by thirty wooden structure and all its contents were wiped out by the time fire officials arrived on the scene. But the quick response saved two other houses that are located nearby. According to the house owner, a man known to […]
The New Year didn’t start right for a family from rural Belize District. A raging fire on Sunday morning destroyed the home of seven members on the Old Northern Highway. It happened in Maskall Village while the Tuyul family was in the lower flat of the house, preparing for breakfast. They heard noises on the […]
