An electrical fire during the heavy rains on Saturday night has completely destroyed a concrete bungalow structure on Supal Street. The residence of twenty-seven-year-old Roman Riverol and his father was gutted when an electrical short outside of the building ignited their mechanical equipment. The blaze quickly spread into the elderly man’s bedroom, consuming everything in […]
An early morning fire in Belize City on Monday has left several persons homeless. Sometime around six o’clock, personnel from the National Fire Service were called out to Handyside Street where they met a towering inferno. According to a resident who lived in one of three houses destroyed during the blaze, he was alerted by […]
Alan Gotoy, who has lived in one of the homes since childhood, told News Five today that there was very little he could have done to save his belongings. Everything he owned was destroyed by fire. Alan Gotoy, Fire Victim “I was sleeping, alright, and the girl that stayed next door with me called […]
Another Belize City family residing in Lake Independence is tonight homeless after their home collapsed over the weekend. Lichelle Dixon, her mother and grandmother were living in a dilapidated wooden structure on Pointsetta Street and on previous occasions had reportedly sought help from Area Representative Mark King. That help did not arrive early enough and […]
Police are investigating a weekend fire in City. A small house belonging to Arturo Pasos went up in flames on Saturday afternoon. Pasos lived alone in his wooden house off a London Bridge in the Lake Independence area. When Arturo arrived on the scene it was to find the Fire Department putting out the last […]
A family of four, including a physically challenged father, escaped serious injuries this morning when their elevated home on Electric Avenue in Belize City suddenly collapsed. Joany Smith, her two kids and her husband were all fast asleep when sometime before five a.m., the uprights supporting their wooden house gave way. According to Smith, they […]
As we reported in Tuesday’s newscast, the body of fifty-one year old Andy Grant of San Andres Village was found floating in the sea in Corozal Town in the morning. In the afternoon at about four o’clock, there was another victim at sea. He has now been identified as fifty-six year old US retiree Jimmy […]
A recovery operation to retrieve the body of ten-year-old Jason Pau from the Ho’keb’ Ha Cave in Blue Creek Village remains open, following the disappearance of the minor on Friday evening in the Toledo District. Pau was in the company of a group of American missionaries on a tour of the system when he was […]
The fourth person to lose his life this weekend is a teenager from Belize City. Fourteen year old Eric Cruz was out on an evangelical retreat near mile twenty-five on the George Price Highway. The occasion, which should have had a happy ending turned tragic for Cruz who drowned on Friday evening when he went […]
A fire over the weekend has left several families without a roof over their head. The landlord and her tenants had to evacuate their home immediately when fire and flames were seen coming out of the downstairs. No one was injured but they lost everything. Andrea Polanco went out to Euphrates Avenue and here’s that […]
Two Biscayne families are without their house after it was burnt to the ground shortly after two on Saturday morning. Emmerson Michael, his common-law-wife and their seven children lived upstairs, while his sister and her two children lived downstairs of the house at mile twenty-four and a quarter on the Phillip Goldson Highway. While Emmerson […]
The rains have started in earnest, and while the 2015 Hurricane Season is forecast as less than average, that does not mean that disaster will not strike. Are we prepared in the event of a hurricane…at least as far as hurricane shelters are concerned? NEMO Minister Godwin Hulse says his Ministry has done as much […]
The Department of Civil Aviation is proceeding with an official probe into a plane crash earlier this week involving a Tropic Air flight en route to the Bay Islands of Honduras. The investigation is set to continue as soon as the submerged aircraft is removed from the crash site. To do so requires a joint […]
As we reported in the wake of the accident, it is the second aircraft from Tropic’s fleet to plunge into the Caribbean Sea since December of last year. We asked Garbutt if this poses any concerns to stakeholders in the aviation industry. His response, it is still safer to fly than to traverse the local […]
On Wednesday morning, all three men were returned to the mainland after spending the night at Blackbird Caye. They were then summoned by the Department of Civil Aviation to assist with a preliminary investigation. According to Garbutt, the accounts provided by the pilot and his passengers seem to check out, however, they are conducting an […]
Tonight, there are further details and exclusive images of a Tropic single-engine aircraft which dipped in the Caribbean Sea soon after it departed the Phillip Goldson International Airport in transit to Roatan, Honduras. The incident happened just before five o’clock on Tuesday evening. The CESSNA-182 Skylane, piloted at the time by Senior Captain Denfield Borland, […]
Interestingly, Tropic Air has remained fairly tightlipped about the incident, not offering much by way of a brief release on the company’s Facebook page. On the other hand, Borland told the media that the rescue operation was not as challenging and, with assistance from the Belize Audubon Society; they were able to quickly locate the […]
Today is the start of the hurricane season in the Atlantic which runs through to November thirtieth and is predicted to be below average to average. Chief Meteorologist Dennis Gonguez says that although the outlook calls for a pretty low key season, we must still be prepared. Dennis Gonguez, Chief Meteorologist, Belize Met Service […]
With the start of the 2015 Hurricane Season, the City Emergency Management Organization, CEMO, has once again kicked into high gear, readying itself in the event of natural disaster. This morning, CEMO convened a press conference where it outlined its plan of action for the upcoming months. At the helm was Mayor Darrell Bradley. […]
Councilor Phillip Willoughby who has been instrumental in hurricane preparedness also spoke on the utilization of designated hurricane shelters. Phillip Willoughby, City Councilor “I would like to take this opportunity to advise the public that this is not your home and we have to be careful how we occupy the shelters in the sense […]
A family in Lord’s Bank, Ladyville has been displaced after a fire swept through their wooden bungalow house. Despite efforts by the fire department to extinguish the blaze, it quickly spread, destroying the house and its contents and killing the family’s pet. Doran Russell and family left their home minutes before it went up in […]
A fire gutted a small house on Aloe Vera Street in Belize City just before noon today. The homeowner was not at home when she heard the dreadful news that her house was on fire. On the night before the fire, there were threats of arson. While Caroline Hamilton believes it is arson, the fire […]
An eighty-six year old lady had to be rescued from her house today after it caught fire. A neighbor and friends heard her crying out and they ran in to get her out before the fire extended to the rest of the house. Fire officials were called out to put out the blaze at the […]
The month of April has been a record month for 2015 when it comes to fires. Across the country, there have been several fires since the start of April, gutting a spiritual temple in Baranco and many other homes of numerous families. While most are still reeling from the disaster, on Thursday in Belize City, […]
A fiery blaze on Partridge Street Extension at around one-thirty this afternoon completely destroyed an upstairs wooden home belonging to Edith Valentine. Nobody was there at the time, and Valentine, who works as a cook at Price Barracks got the call at her job. By the time Fire Department personnel extinguished the flames, all had […]
