Two fires were recorded over the weekend out west; one of which claimed the life of a mother of three. The fire broke around three a.m. on Sunday in the Duck Run One community and while the property owner’s mother was able to escape unhurt, they would later that day realise that Mendez, an employee […]
There were several fires reported over the weekend in San Pedro, Belize City and Mahogany Heights. In the case of the fire in Mahogany Heights, it is being investigated as a case of arson, as surveillance footage has been recovered and a possible motive established. Today, News Five spoke with the owner of the property […]
In Belize City, sixty-four-year-old Anthony Mortis is without a roof over his head after the small wooden structure he lived in was destroyed by fire in the wee small hours of Saturday. Mortis lived in a ten-by-ten structure, located behind his sister’s house on Cemetery Road, next to La Popular Bakery. He’s a diabetic and […]
The 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season is underway. While we have been fortunate thus far not to be affected by adverse weather, tonight’s episode of Belize on Reel looks back at the harrowing experience of Hurricane Hattie in 1961 and the devastating loss in its wake. The story of Reverend Otto Wade may not be familiar […]
This evening, officials from the National Fire Service were summoned to an area behind the Belama Phase Five community where a huge bush fire was burning uninhibited. The truck could not reach the area however, because of illegal low-hanging electrical lines. Those makeshift grids have been connected from B.E.L’s main power lines to the homes […]
In the wee small hours of Saturday a fire erupted inside one of the oldest structures on Regent Street in Belize City. Once the home of the Eusey family, the building, at the corner of South and Regent Streets, was an old shingled structure set to be demolished. The fire spread quickly, consuming the building […]
A fire has destroyed all the contents of a house in the Vista del Mar area. The fire was reported on Sunday at a residence occupied by William Neal, the Communications Director at Belize Sugar Industries Limited. Neal, who is also a well-known media personality, had reportedly left his house and a neighbor called to […]
On Wednesday, we reported the devastating story of four-year-old K’Lee Flores who perished inside a burning house on Sarstoon Street in Belize City. The special needs child was sleeping inside a bedroom in the upper flat of the home when a fire broke inside the house. Attempts were made by a thirteen-year-old to rescue the […]
We also got a word with Minister of Human Development on the issue of the fires that have claimed people’s lives this year. She urges parents especially to take extra care when it comes to the safety of their children. Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, Minister of Human Development “My response on the family’s issue would be a […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with the tragic death of a four-year-old special needs child who lost her life in a fire this morning in Belize City. A fire broke out around four a.m., while the family slept inside their Sarstoon Street home. It spread quickly and consumed the upper flat of the two storey structure. […]
Was there negligence in the death of four-year-old K’Lee Flores? Social media has been buzzing and even at the scene of the fire, the question of who is ultimately responsible for the tragedy came up. Station Supervisor at the National Fire Service, Kenneth Mortis says that outside of a dialogue with a police investigator, there […]
Three families have been displaced by an early morning fire on Rivero Street in Belize City. If the area sounds familiar that is because just last week, an eighteen-year-old resident was shot dead a couple blocks away on Fabers Road and there has been tension in the area ever since. In fact, one of the […]
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Doctor Carla Barnett has sent condolences to Guyana, following a fire at a school that claimed the lives of at least twenty schoolchildren. The fire in Mahdia, near the centre of Guyana, early this morning, swept through a high school boarding school killing at least nineteen of the students […]
Creating awareness on the impacts of climate change at the community level is among the work that government, multinational agencies and N.G.O.’s have been doing. It includes looking at Belize’s resiliency in the agriculture sector and minimizing carbon footprint, as well as the energy sector and looking at renewable energy. But recently there has been […]
A few weeks after a fire destroyed several thatch-roofed structures at the Mayan Garden Resort in Orange Walk, the business establishment remains closed to the public. The fire happened on the afternoon of Sunday April thirtieth and the damages amount to almost five million dollars. While the Fire Department had indicated soon after the incident […]
Around eleven a.m. today, a fire broke inside a wooden structure in the Lake Independence area of Belize City. Firefighters responded to the distress call and a short while after found a twelve-by-fifteen house engulfed in flames. The fire was soon after extinguished and an investigation revealed that it may have been an electrical fire. […]
The deadly house fire on Tuesday morning in Belize City that claimed the life of a young mother and her two children remains under investigation by the National Fire Service. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Human Development has also been working closely with the family of the deceased woman. According to Minister Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, social workers […]
Several persons lost their lives over the extended weekend and we’ll have these stories for you later. But we begin our newscast tonight with this morning’s inferno on Antelope Street Extension that has gripped the nation. A mother and her two children – one three years old and the other only three months old – […]
While there was loss of lives in this morning’s fire on Antelope Street Extension, a Haitian national is in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital having survived a fire inside a vehicle. On Saturday, thirty-one-year-old Davidson Estiverne received various degrees of burns to the body when he set himself on fire inside an […]
There was also a fire in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City on Sunday; fortunately, no one was injured in that blaze. But the National Fire Service is reporting that the two-storey wooden structure, while abandoned by its owner, it was being occupied by someone. Kenneth Mortis says that the fire was due […]
There were several other fires reported over the extended weekend. In Orange Walk, the Mayan Garden Resort on the Philip Goldson Highway, popularly known for its buffalo burgers, went up in flames. The fire broke sometime around three o’clock on Sunday afternoon and spread quickly to consume several structures on the property. The losses are […]
A home in Orange Walk Town was completely destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. Reports are that sometime around nine p.m., a wooden structure went up in flames on Mopan Street. Forty-two-year-old Leidy Hall told police that the residence is the property of her mother Maria Rosado who is presently in Mexico seeking medical attention. […]
The National Fire Service is also reporting a malicious act that occurred overnight in Orange Walk Town. Fire fighters were called out to a structural fire on San Andres and Progress Streets in that northern municipality sometime after eleven p.m. Flames were discovered on the step and under the back door of a wooden and […]
Two structures at Bacab Eco Park, valued at seven hundred thousand dollars in total, went up in flames on Monday night. Police are currently investigating the incident as a case of arson. According to reports, fifty-nine-year-old Govanni Smith, the owner of Bacab Eco Park, told police that two male persons were seen entering the park […]
On Saturday night, a fire broke inside a concrete structure in the Saint Martin de Porres area of Belize City. It was reportedly home to Glenford Webster, a person, residents, say who has a mental condition and lived in the house alone. The structure had no electricity and the fire is believed to have been […]
