A fire swept through a mobile home on Thursday night on Boots Crescent, Belize City. In the blink of an eye, the Flowers family lost everything as the flames quickly raged through the trailer, home to as many as fifteen family members. Fortunately no one was hurt as they were able to quickly evacuate the […]
The special investigation into the fire which claimed the lives of three minors at the Princess Royal Youth Hostel commenced five weeks ago, on December first. To date, no information has been provided on any findings coming out of that investigation. Via text, C.E.O. in the Ministry of Human Development Judith Alpuche told us only, […]
In February of 2015, the Founder of World Famous Hummingbird Highway Tamales, Bertha Lisbey passed away at age seventy-eight. But business continued as usual as her daughter, Aurora carried on the tradition at the well known location. But less than a year after, tragedy struck once again because on New Year’s Eve, the popular shed […]
A fire on Antelope Street Extension has left a single mother and her two children without a roof over their heads. On Monday night in Belize City, a pair of unsupervised children playing with matches started a fire inside the room of Geneve Armstrong. The inferno damaged most of her household items and the mother […]
A San Pedro mechanic is tonight homeless after the wooden structure he once called home was gutted by fire. At about five o’clock on Sunday morning, thirty-four year old Ricardo Valladarez woke up to the smell of smoke and realized that his Escalante Subdivision house was on fire. The twenty-four by twenty-six wooden structure with […]
The Christmas holidays are upon us, but for the Sanchez family of Belize City, there is little to look forward to. Last Friday, their belongings were destroyed when a fire spread through their house on the King’s Park area. With nothing left except for the clothes on their backs, the family is attempting to rebuild […]
Tonight, at least three persons are left homeless and three others are staying with relatives after the two storey house they were living in was gutted by flames. Just before four this morning, a fire broke at the corner of Hopkins and Third Streets in the King’s Park area of Belize City and within minutes, […]
The always feisty member for Toledo West, Oscar Requeña was on fire this morning, claiming that while Belize City residents got stoves and refrigerators, all the people of Toledo got was Ramen, and even then only a two day supply. Oscar Requeña, Member for Toledo West “If people in Belize City can receive television, […]
The southern part of Belize was the most affected over the past weekend when heavy rains came down. Roads and other infrastructure were submerged under water and became passable when the waters receded. Hundreds of residents had to be taken to shelters. That was on Saturday and Sunday in Toledo, but this morning the gushing […]
In respect of the flooding in the west, on Monday’s newscast we told you that several crossings including the Iguana Creek Bridge, the low-lying wooden bridge that connects San Ignacio to Santa Elena and the ferries at Baking Pot, Central Farm and Succotz were out of commission. Water levels had been fluctuating along the Macal […]
Just a few weeks ago, Belize City was underwater…inundated by a weekend of heavy rain. NEMO had to be pressed into immediate and urgent action to relieve suffering caused by the floodwaters. It hasn’t exactly rated the same attention, but sections of the Toledo District were flooded out this weekend, again because of incessant rains […]
Aside from the south, the downpour over the weekend also affected the western part of the country where the Macal and Mopan Rivers rose above their usual levels. While homes were not affected by flooding, infrastructure was. Bridges, ferries and roads were under water today when Duane Moody was in the Cayo District. Duane […]
Bomba is a small community off the Old Northern Highway in the Belize Rural North constituency. There are twenty-seven families living in the village without electricity even though wires were installed since January of this year. So while the families live without power supply, they now have to face other challenges resulting from the flooding […]
Just before midnight on Thursday, the Camalote campaign office of U.D.P. Standard Bearer Ralph Huang was destroyed by fire and police are investigating the blaze as a case of arson. The Cayo South aspirant doesn’t know whose dunnit, but he says someone saw some flammable liquid in a basket or bucket. The current area representative, […]
All eyes are on Mexico tonight which is being battered by the strongest hurricane in history with wind gusts of two hundred and thirty miles an hour. Evacuation of persons living in the path of Hurricane Patricia started days ago as Mexico prepares for the category-five hurricane. At this time, the hurricane is bearing down […]
One of the most poverty-stricken communities is Jerusalem; it is located in the outskirts of the Krooman Lagoon in the Antelope Street Extension of the city. The flooding of the weekend has worsened conditions for the families who already had to cope with the hardships and challenges of life in a community without even basic […]
A family of four was among the many left homeless as a result of the flooding over the weekend. The head of the family is a single mother of three school-aged children who says her house could not withstand the flood waters. The crack of the wooden structure woke her up and she scrambled to […]
On Monday, we showed you the deplorable conditions in which residents of Mayflower Street are living. While the situation had been that way well before the weekend flooding, Area Representative Patrick Faber says that help is on the way. During today’s cabinet meeting, Faber was given assurance that immediate relief is coming to that area […]
In our newscast tonight, we have full coverage of the unexpected extreme weather conditions that went from a long drought to three days of torrential rains. According to forecasters, the City was drenched with as much as twenty-three inches of rainfall causing extensive flooding in many areas that caught residents off-guard. Fortunately, there has been […]
Four areas in the City were the hardest hit by the weekend’s rains: Collet, Port Loyola, Lake Independence and Freetown Divisions. The water poured into houses damaging the little residents had; others simply could not leave their homes and had to be evacuated by the Belize Coastguard. The streets turned into rivers as many residents […]
The waters which covered Belize City in the weekend’s epic flooding have largely receded, allowing the very critical component of recovery to get underway unimpeded. CEMO, the City’s Emergency Management Organization, will play a critical role in that effort. Today that body, headquartered at City Hall updated the media on life in the city after […]
Back to the weekend floods…At least three houses collapsed due to the velocity of the winds that accompanied the torrential rains. For a family in Lake Independence, Saturday night was horrifying. Their house collapsed under them, trapping a nine year old school boy. Duane Moody has that story. Duane Moody, Reporting The inclement weather […]
Meanwhile, in Port Loyola, thirty-six year old Lisa Flowers was inside her sister’s room when her portion of the house fell into the flood waters. The wooden house on Fabers Road collapsed on Sunday morning during the heavy rains of the weekend. All her belongings and household items were completely damaged and she is now […]
On Sunday, there was no supply of electricity in certain areas of the Southside for most of the day. That’s because Belize Electricity Limited was forced to cut power after illegal connections threatened mass casualties by electrocution. It’s nothing new – hundreds of residents in communities like Antelope Street Extension and Gungulung access electricity through […]
Diarrhea, Hepatitis A, and other related illnesses are among several health conditions that can become an epidemic in the aftermath of floods. Over the weekend, the Ministry of Health issued a release on best practices to implement in respect of water and food safety and concerns relating to dengue, chikungunya and malaria. As images surfaced […]
