One of the biggest challenges being experienced at this hour is the movement of people to safe ground. NEMO states that there is reluctance by persons to evacuate their homes. In the areas where the hurricane is expected to hit, the residents are refusing to move to shelters. Clare Moody, NEMO Coordinator “One of […]
In Belize City, residents stocked up on food and other necessities to tidy them over the hurricane. Gas stations, supermarkets and hardware stores were abuzz was activity in preparation for Hurricane Earl. Some of those that were not at the stores transferred to shelters. CEMO Coordinator, Phillip Willoughby is in the thick of things. So […]
On Tuesday, we showed you the Krooman Lagoon area of Belize City where residents were resisting pleas to move to escape the projected flooding. Last October, the area was most affected after heavy rains; up to three hundred families were unable to leave the area after the heavy rains; the coastguard and CEMO had to […]
As you’re watching this it is likely that Hurricane Earl is just about ready to make landfall and we’re already experiencing heavy winds and torrential rains. As you’re heard by now that’s expected to continue into Thursday morning as the storm moves inland. It is our hope that Belizeans, especially those in the very flood […]
One of the primary reasons for residents in that area moving without hesitation into the shelter is bitter experience. The last time heavy rains fell, in late 2015, many residents lost all their possessions when floodwaters inundated the Southside. News Five spoke to two women making use of the facility who explained that they didn’t […]
A News Five team is in Burrell Boom tonight where the eye of the storm is expected to pass and residents are expected to experience winds of about seventy-five miles per hour. So far, a number of residents are hesitant in leaving their homes. The chairperson of the village, Merlene Baptist-Pandy is making a desperate […]
Fire broke early this morning in Belize City. A plume of smoke enveloped the area of Jones Street in the Lake Independence area as fire erupted at a wooden house. An estranged couple, occupants of the house, was not at home and Fire Department is not ruling out arson in their investigations. It is also […]
Earlier today, we also checked in to find out what is happening in Belize Rural where the communities are spread out in the wide expanse. Police plan to keep an eye on the more than thirty villages in the Belize Rural District. As residents leave their homes for higher ground and shelter, it leaves the […]
Before we close tonight, NEMO has issued information on shelters that are now open. In San Pedro: New Horizon Seventh Day Adventist School, San Pedro High School and San Pedro RC Primary. In Belmopan: Garden City Primary School, Belmopan Comprehensive High School and the University of Belize. In Belize City: Saint John’s Vianney, Unity Presbyterian […]
In the final hours before Hurricane Earl makes landfall on Belize, here are three things to note according to in-house expert Carlos Fuller from the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center. Carlos Fuller, CCCCC “I think we recognize three significant changes that have occurred between this morning and six this evening, but especially that occurred […]
The weather channel has a storm tracker stationed in Belize providing regular updates on Hurricane Earl as it develops and travels through Belize. Josh Morgerman is currently on San Pedro. The clip is the last weather channel update as well as a report from the storm tracker since he landed in Belize. {Highlights from […]
Tropical Storm Earl has formed in the Caribbean Sea and is expected to make landfall in Belize on Wednesday night after inundating portions of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands through tonight. Earl is the first Atlantic basin named storm since late June. The tropical storm which is gaining strength and momentum roughly four hundred miles […]
With Tropical Storm Earl approaching the country, preparations are well underway to counter the effects of the storm. Today, CEMO/NEMO were have been meeting with the relevant agencies, putting in place what is necessary to provide shelter and prevent casualties. One area that is expected to flood is at Krooman Lagoon in the city. That’s […]
In Corozal, a total of ten shelters have been identified. Personnel from the District Emergency Management Organization are in communication with residents in flood prone areas; making preparations for an evacuation should it become necessary. News Five spoke by phone with Willard Levy this evening and he informed that the DEMO team in Corozal has […]
As you’ve seen, from all accounts Earl will be visiting Belize, arriving as an unwelcome guest sometime Wednesday night. NEMO has been activated since Monday, with shelters ready and all hands on deck, including the B.D.F. News Five spoke to Commander David Jones to get an idea of the military’s deployment on the eve of […]
The latest NEMO advisory was released at six tonight. It states that Earl will produce rainfall accumulation of eight to twelve inches of rainfall over Belize. These rains could cause flash floods and mud slides, especially over higher terrain. For coastal areas, there is also a risk for flooding, especially in low-lying areas such as […]
We will have detailed report on the unnamed weather system, classified by the National Hurricane Center as Invest Ninety-seven L, which continues to make its way across the eastern and central Caribbean. The fast moving tropical wave has a ninety percent chance of forming into a tropical system over the next five days. While the […]
There was a fire on Friday evening in Burrell Boom that left a forty-year old Customs Guard homeless. Brian Estrada and his family are tonight without a roof over their heads after the wooden structure they called home went up in flames. Fighters responded shortly after the blaze started, but by then everything had been […]
A total of persons comprising two families are victims of a fire this morning in Belize City. A family of eight lost everything when the blaze swept through her house destroying all her personal belongings. The neighbor’s house was also damaged, but the fire was not as devastating. Luckily, no one was physically injured since […]
The Moody family in May Pen, Belize District is tonight grieving the sudden death of eight year old Adrianna Moody, whose body was retrieved this morning from the Belize River that traverses the village. The minor met a horrible death when she was snatched by a ten-foot crocodile as she swan in the river with […]
At around midnight on June twenty-seventh, a fiery blaze virtually swept through an entire block of San Pedro Town, a densely populated area on Pescador Drive. When the fire was finally extinguished hours after, eleven buildings had been totally destroyed and seven partially destroyed. Eight businesses were affected, along with eighty-eight persons in thirty-four different […]
A family of eleven in Mahogany Heights is tonight homeless after the place they called home was gutted by fire this morning. Sometime around five a.m., Elstwin Willoughby, his wife and their eleven children and grandchildren were the victims of an inferno that is believed to have been deliberately set. But was the fire retaliatory? […]
It has been a little over a week since a devastating fire in San Pedro virtually leveled an entire block near the heart of the downtown area. The inferno gutted several buildings leaving as many as eighty-eight persons displaced. Since then there has been a concerted effort by various government and non-governmental organizations to assist […]
A massive cleanup campaign to remove a substantial amount of debris in the wake of an overnight fire in San Pedro continued this morning. The flames eviscerated eleven buildings after midnight on Sunday, leaving eighty-eight persons homeless in what is quite possibly the worst fire in the island’s history. A team of volunteers arrived at […]
On the ground in San Pedro, the District Emergency Management Organization continues its efforts to return a sense of normalcy to the area hardest hit by the fire. Since Monday, the organization has been coordinating with other agencies to provide relief for the displaced families. That initiative includes the collection of funds to assist with […]
