There was a second fire on Sunday. It happened in village of Lemonal, also in the Belize District. The fire broke out at around three-thirty p.m. when a family of six was inside the house. Firefighters did not respond to the structural fire at the time because a report was made until after the house […]
Within the past week, there have been several fires across the country. The first fire happened in Burrell Boom Village in the Belize District. Two wooden homes were destroyed by fire on Friday, December twenty-first. The two homes were owned by a pair of sisters who lived next door to each other – and when […]
On Monday, we told you about a fire along the Stann Creek Valley Roadthat left a family of eight homeless. Sometime after ten a.m. last Saturday, a fire completely destroyed a wooden home in Steadfast Village. The owners of the property were not at home when the blaze started, but were alerted shortly afterwards. The […]
And on Christmas Day a family was left homeless when a fire broke out inside their home around ten in the morning. It happened on Marina Drive in the DFC area in San Pedro Town. The family of six lost everything and one person was injured. The National Fire Service tells us more about the […]
On Boxing Day there were two separate fires one in Orange Walk Town and the other in Belize City. The fire in Orange Walk happened around one-thirty in the morning. Flames were seen inside a business place, but quick action contained the blaze. The National Fire Service says that its investigation shows that the fire […]
The second fire on Boxing Day happened right here in Belize City. The National Fire Service says that around six-thirty that evening flames were spotted inside a wooden home on Tibruce Street. But police officers who were nearby quickly extinguished the blaze. The house, according to fire officials, was occupied by one person. Here’s more […]
On Friday morning, a house fire on Cleghorn Street destroyed the upper flat of a two-storey wooden structure. The blaze was the result of a tenant deliberately setting his room on fire. While it was initially reported as a failed suicide attempt, investigators have learned that the renter may be suffering from mental health issues. […]
Fire completely destroyed a house at mile sixteen on the Stann Creek Valley Road over the weekend. A family of eight lost all their personal belongings, as well as the roof over their heads around ten-thirty on Saturday morning when a fire broke out inside their home in Steadfast Village. The owners of the property, […]
Eleven persons who occupied a two storey building on Cleghorn Street, Belize City, are left to pick up the pieces just before the Christmas. This morning one of the tenants on the upper flat set a mattress on fire in an attempt to take his life. Though he barricaded himself inside the apartment as the […]
Station Manager Orin Smith provided details of the firefighting effort to extinguish the blaze, however, he was not able to confirm the suggestion that the tenant who started the fire was attempting to take his own life in the process. Orin Smith, Station Officer, National Fire Service “Earlier today, Friday, December 21st, 2018, at […]
At this hour, global talks are still under way in Katowice, Poland, to develop a rulebook to enforce the 2015 Paris agreement to address climate change. After two weeks of negotiations, which countries have described to be slow and contentious, there is still not a final agreement because of persisting differences over key issues such […]
Countries have not been able to come to a consensus on certain points. One of the areas that the small island developing states are concerned about is the issue of double counting emission reductions. Here Carlos Fuller explains exactly what that issue is and why they have been sticking to it: Carlos Fuller, Negotiator […]
Tragedy struck a Belize City family on Tuesday night. Eleven-month-old Marianne Vasquez fell and drowned in a bucket of water at her home in Belama. According to the family, baby Marianne was playing with a piece of a paper which dropped in the bucket containing about six inches of water. That bucket was inside the […]
After being missing for more than twenty-four hours, the body of prominent Corozal businessman, forty-one-year-old Rudy Morales of Morales Bus Company was found late this evening. His body was floating on the sea near the Cuello Maya Site in the Corozal District. Morales was part of a fishing expedition that took four men and a […]
Police are investigating a house fire in the southern village of Big Falls. The fire destroyed the house of Angelina Ack, a twenty-eight-year-old bus owner. Fortunately, Ack and her two children were not at home when it went up in flames; they were at her parent’s house nearby. She claims that her common-law-husband, thirty-one-year-old Ken […]
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season has ended and there is a sigh of relief in Belize. The season was forecasted to be normal to slightly above normal in the Atlantic Basin. It turned out to be above normal, more specifically in the North Atlantic region. Of the eight hurricanes which formed, two developed into hurricane […]
Christmas is less than a month away, but for two families in Belize City, there is not much to celebrate this season. The Williams and Neal families were displaced today by a raging fire that totally gutted their house at the corner of Rocky Road and Plues Street. The fire started on the lower flat […]
And so if you’re wondering what exactly the IPCC Report means for the small island developing states; the news is grim. For coral reefs and other vulnerable ecosystems it may mean a massive die out if we can’t keep global temperatures down to one point five degrees Celsius. Fuller said that the report has a […]
Two men were electrocuted while they were cutting trees in Roaring Creek. According to police, the two persons were working near the Westar Gas Station when they received life threatening electrical shocks. The men are now hospitalized in the K.H.M.H. in critical condition. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Two persons, namely […]
In October, we reported on the attempted arson at the home of Belize City resident Andre Diaz. But tonight, the news is dire for Diaz, since this time, her house was destroyed by fire. The fire broke out sometime after ten o’clock on Tuesday night and spread to her mother’s house, damaging the structure. While […]
According to UNDP Programme Specialist, Carla Zacapa, Belize is part of a broader regional initiative known as Info Segura which is a form of evidence-based information management. U.S. AID also partnered with the Ministry of National Security and U.N.D.P. for the donation of the equipment. Carla Zacapa, Officer in Charge, UNDP “On behalf of […]
The Caribbean Tourism Organization today met with stakeholders of the tourism industry in Belize to discuss the organization’s disaster risk management guide for the tourism sector. Participants trained on how to implement actions to develop responses to activities in the event of a disaster. Stakeholders were also taught how to recognize and appreciate the important […]
There was a fire at the home of Damian Burns in Belmopan on Sunday night and all indications are that the blaze was deliberately set. Burns reported to police that he had an altercation with a tenant and after filing the report with officers at the station, the forty-four-year-old returned to find his Toucan Avenue […]
Corozal police are also investigating what appears to be a case of arson in Patchakan, where a five bedroom structure went up in flames on Monday night. According to ACP Joseph Myvett, indications are that the intruder entered the vacant building, rummaged through it and then set it on fire. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
There was a fire in the city on Saturday night. The blaze destroyed a small, wooden home that was occupied by two persons. When fire officials arrived on the scene, the fifteen by twenty structure was engulfed in flames. At this time, the cause of the fire is still not known. News Five’s Andrea Polanco […]
