Earlier today, forty participants, including clients of SBDC Belize and Export Belize, both units of BELTRAIDE, attended a workshop to strengthen the capacities of policy makers, business development organizations and business owners in developing and promoting business continuity planning. It is a key strategic mitigation measure in the event of a disaster. News Five’s Isani […]
On Thursday, we shared the City Emergency Management Organisation’s plans and preparation for the hurricane season. Also discussed was the issue of shelters across the City. According to CEMO, the shelters have been assessed and are in proper condition to be used in the event of evacuations. Here’s more from CEMO’s press briefing. Bernard […]
The hurricane season began last Friday and today, the City Emergency Management Organisation (CEMO) hosted a press briefing to share what it has done and continues to do in preparation for the Tropical Atlantic Hurricane Season. According to Chairman of the Emergency Operations Center, Mayor Bernard Wagner, they have reviewed and revised all plans and […]
While logistical preparations are ongoing, if the Emergency Operations Center needs to be activated, at present moment it has no base. In recent years, the City Council has used a number of different locations including the Charles Bartlett Hyde Building, but they must now find a new base for operations and CEMO has its eyes […]
They may be occasionally irascible neighbors, but they are neighbors nonetheless. And in the aftermath of the devastation caused by the volcano “El Fuego” in the municipality of Antigua, Guatemala, on Sunday, the nations of the region and the world have come together in empathy. Belize’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington, during this week’s […]
Ambassador Alexis Rosado, Belize’s diplomatic representative in Guatemala, also extended sympathies to families who have suffered losses in the wake of the volcanic disaster in the central highlands of Guatemala. Fortunately, the few Belizeans living in and around the city of Antigua are all accounted for. Alexis Rosado, Ambassador to Guatemala “It’s such a […]
Disturbing images of death and destruction continue to emerge in the wake of the eruption of Volcan de Fuego in Antigua in neighboring Guatemala. The death toll is rising as Guatemala continues to grapple with one of its worst natural disasters. The Belize Red Cross has launched an appeal for cash donations since the organization […]
As many as sixty-two persons have lost their lives since the eruption of the Fuego volcano in El Rodeo Village near Antigua, Guatemala on Sunday. A river of lava discharged from the volcano, sending plumes of thick smoke and volcanic ash almost six miles into the atmosphere. According to Guatemala’s health ministry, fifteen persons, including […]
According to reports from Guatemala’s Institute of Forensic Sciences, volcanic ash has already blanketed a twelve-mile radius and winds could carry the dark gray cloud even farther. Authorities have called on residents living near the volcano to evacuate immediately, particularly those in the states of Chimaltenango and Escuintla to watch out for volcanic rocks and […]
The death toll continues to rise from Sunday’s eruption of Volcan de Fuego near Antigua, Guatemala, with more than sixty persons confirmed dead and many more feared lost under the lava, hundreds injured and countless others affected. The Opposition People’s United Party has expressed its sorrow and heartfelt solidarity with our western neighbors as they […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you about the inferno down south in Hopkins on Sunday morning in which the charred remains of a man were found. That was just one of three fires over the extended weekend. Fortunately, the other two were not fatal and classified as electrical fires. Just before midday on Sunday, […]
The third fire occurred on Saturday night on Caye Caulker. A family of six remains homeless tonight after the wooden structure they called home was completely destroyed by an electrical fire just before nine p.m. Fire Station Manager Smith gives an update. Orin Smith, Station Manager, National Fire Service “At approximately eight-forty-five p.m., the […]
A Toledo family is in mourning tonight after a freak accident in the village of San Pedro Columbia, Toledo. Ten-year-old Emilda Che, also known as Edna, was with her grandfather in the yard this morning. He was cutting down a tree and did not notice her, but the trunk fell on her. She died after […]
Police suspect that a cluster of houses in the Banana Bank area in the outskirts of Belmopan was set on fire to disguise a murder. The fire swept through the four wooden houses early on Tuesday afternoon, but around three o’clock firefighters found the charred remains of a man believed to be British national Bruce […]
Fires have been erupting everywhere; this weekend there were three fires in the Belize District. In Ladyville on Friday afternoon, a fire swept through a wooden house where a family of nine lived. Four children were home when the blaze erupted inside one of the rooms. The siblings were removed from the burning house, but […]
Less than twenty-four hours later, there was yet another fire in Ladyville, also on Manta Ray Boulevard for which a family of two has been displaced. A single mother and her son occupied the house, but were not at home at the time of the blaze. Orin Smith of the Fire Department confirms that the […]
The third fire occurred in the Eight Miles Community on the George Price Highway. What residents say was an abandoned wooden house, made from pimenta sticks, went up in flames on Sunday afternoon. The owner has not come forward and the Fire Department says that the structure could not have been saved. Orin Smith, […]
An early morning blaze completely destroyed a wooden home on the south side of Belize City. But tonight the question is – did those fourteen persons, nine adults and five children, really had to be without a roof over their heads following an electrical fire? The homeowner and occupants do not believe so and now […]
Deputy Fire Chief Benisford Matura has spoken on the dated fleet of trucks – and how it slowed them down from carrying out the kind of fire-fighting needed to save a family’s home on Iguana Street Extension. Matura says the faulty truck is already in repair and we asked him about the fire service’s readiness […]
Sometime after midnight on Thursday, an SUV belonging to Melanie Staine was observed on fire on North Creek in Belize City. The Fire Department was called out to extinguish the fire. . Reports are that someone set it ablaze but the fire service would not confirm a case of arson. Benisford Matura says the national […]
This week’s firings at City Hall have ignited a political firestorm that has morphed into a potentially dangerous situation. A vehicle belonging to a high ranking official at City Hall was torched on Wednesday night. From all accounts it was politically motivated. Sharlene Rudon was in bed at home in the Kings Park area of […]
A Belize City man’s house burnt down on Friday night. Andrew Fuller lost everything when the fire destroyed his home on Price Alley off Victoria Street on north side Belize City. But the fire didn’t start on his property; it originated from a neighbouring derelict building. The Fire Department says it is not clear what […]
There was another fire, but this one was contained rather quickly. It happened around twelve this afternoon today on Central American Boulevard in the lower flat of a commercial building. According to the Fire Department, the shop owner reported that they were cooking before they left the shop and it appears that they didn’t turn […]
A number of projects are being undertaken in eleven villages within the Toledo District through Humana People to People Belize. Those initiatives include the improvements of physical infrastructure, as well as early warning systems for reduced risk to natural hazards. Touring the projects was NEMO Minister Edmond ‘Clear the Land’ Castro. He shared his impression […]
On Tuesday, a freak storm hit Crique Jute (hoo-te) Village in southern Belize around three-thirty in the afternoon. It was approximately thirty minutes of hail and what residents say were winds of about thirty to forty miles per hour. Huge trees were taken down blocking pathways to houses and destroying several farms in the village, […]
