A small plycem house was gutted by fire this morning; fortunately it was unoccupied at the time. According to the National Fire Service, the call came in at around eleven-twenty-three a.m. They arrived at the scene off Caesar Ridge Road to find the house measuring twenty by thirty feet engulfed in flames. The firefighters managed […]
Those who left San Pedro arrived in Belize City by boat. News Five’s Jose Sanchez was at the Water Taxi terminal when the evacuees came ashore. Jose Sanchez, Reporting San Pedro was calm because it was short of three thousand residents. NEMO provided free boat rides for residents who heeded the call for evacuation. And […]
The northern part of the country, stretching from Belize City to the northern border is under hurricane watch and it looks that Rina, a category two hurricane can further strengthen. With winds of up to one hundred and ten miles, and moving at three miles per hour, it can become a hurricane a category three […]
As we said at the top of the newscast, evacuations are taking place from San Pedro and Caye Caulker, bringing residents to the mainland. Residents from the cayes were transferred to Belize City today from where they are heading to higher ground. Most persons we met were calm and glad to get out of harm’s […]
There’s a hurricane watch in effect tonight from Belize City to the north. At this time, NEMO has declared red one. Tropical Depression number eighteen formed on Sunday afternoon and by the end of the day, it was named Tropical Storm Rina. This afternoon, Rina intensified even further to a category one hurricane and the […]
Hurricane Hattie was one of the worst to hit Belize. It caused untold destruction and human loss. The Museum of Belize, Belize Archives and Records as well as the Craig Family have compiled photographs and other images that tell the story of the pre and post hurricane Hattie. That exhibition opens on Monday, but today […]
If you’re making plans for the weekend, you’ll want to keep it indoors because it’s going to be a wet one. Since Thursday there have been heavy rains in central and northern Belize caused by a lingering weather system that has potential to develop into a tropical depression. The flood prone areas in southern Belize […]
The deluge was heavy on Thursday night and within a couple of hours, numerous areas of the city were flooded. Schools around the city closed today and some streets were completely under water. One of the affected areas is the Jane Usher Boulevard. A resident of the area, who is also the owner of a […]
When the rains come there are complaints from all over Belize City about flooded streets. But today News Five was called by a Dunn Street resident who has to contend with flooding inside his house. He chose not to appear on camera to protect his job, but told us that the problem affecting his family […]
A young man from the Valley of Peace was killed in a freak accident on Thursday afternoon. Jose Alberto Cab was struck by lightning and electrocuted when he was returning home from the nearby creek. But lightning struck twice for the family and his two sisters who were cooking were also injured during Thursday’s thunderstorms. […]
A Hattieville fire victim is still struggling to find shelter months after her house was gutted by a blaze. Gilda Flowers’ house was destroyed back in May; she made the news because another house assigned to a Hurricane Richard victim would have been taken from him to be given to her. That plan didn’t go […]
They say that God won’t give us more than we can handle but Odessa Orosco is being tested. Orosco has been having a rough time; two months ago she buried her son, Christopher Bowman, who passed away after struggling with a vascular tumor. And on Tuesday, the heavy rains have collapsed her small wooden house […]
But the bad news gets worst because according to the National Met Service, more thunderstorms are expected tonight and on Friday. Winds are blowing at about forty miles per hour, which is too forceful for the fragile banana trees to withstand. Forecaster, Michael Gentle told News Five today that multiple weather systems in the region […]
An early morning fire has left one man without a roof over his head and his sibling without his main source of income. The two men lost everything when the blaze devoured the two-storey building on Caesar Ridge Road. The brothers are turning to the public for assistance. News Five’s Andrea Polanco reports. Andrea Polanco, […]
Assessment on the damage left behind by tropical storm Harvey on Saturday is underway and for one businessman, he has summed up his losses to close to a million dollars. John Carr, pioneer of Banana Bank Lodge says the unexpected force winds that lashed his corn fields over the weekend, flattened major plots of his […]
Tropical Storm Harvey turned out, fortunately, to be more bark than bite on Saturday. The big news coming out of the storm were claims that tornados had ripped through the villages of Crooked Tree and San Lazaro in the north. There was an air of both excitement and despair; excitement because tornados are unknown in […]
Harvey made landfall at midday on Saturday, earlier than forecasted, but weakened considerably as it hit Dangriga. The predictions that it would turn into a hurricane quickly dissipated along with the storm. Most areas in its path did, however, experience heavy rains, but damages are minimal. Shelters were opened but few were occupied. Our News […]
The weather system that rose from the Eastern Caribbean now has a name and it’s Tropical Storm Harvey. Harvey’s strength is about forty-five miles per hour and is expected to strengthen tonight, before landfall on Saturday. According to Dennis Gonguez, the Chief Met Officer, the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) has met this morning and […]
At six o’clock this evening Tropical Storm Harvey, the first weather system expected to make landfall in Belize since the start of the 2011 Hurricane Season, was positioned two hundred and fifty-five miles east, southeast of Dangriga. The tropical storm is moving at a speed of ten miles per hour in a west, northwesterly direction […]
Dark clouds loom over the battlefield on which the ownership of Telemedia will be decided. But the legal issue is not the only reason why the sky is expected to be dark throughout the weekend. A weather system that developed in the Eastern Caribbean has been slowly moving west. The Belize MET Service has been […]
A recently vacated house on the Central American Boulevard went up in flames early this morning. The Fire Department received the report of the blaze at around two-thirty-five this morning and they were on the scene in a record three minutes. But the speedy response still could not save the two storey wooden and concrete […]
On Wednesday night’s newscast, we reported on a fire in Benque Viejo. Although neighbors assisted victims such as Hector Martinez who lived in the building, his father-in-law who owned the structure, confirmed to News Five earlier today that his loss was about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in assets. Rudolfo Hernandez stopped by our […]
A large plume of smoke was visible over the western border town of Benque on August eighth. At about eight-thirty on Monday morning, the Benque Police Formation and the Fire department responded to a fire in the Zone Four area, which is one street away from the Arenal Road. The home, which belonged to Hector […]
June to November, that’s the hurricane season which experts say will be active this year in the region. While we have been spared so far, Haiti, which is still recovering from previous disasters, was battered by Tropical Storm Emily last week. The Belize Red Cross is currently conducting a risk reduction project for a number […]
Still reeling from the effects of hurricane Richard in 2010 and with an active projected hurricane season, the need for insurance to reduce costs from hurricanes and earthquakes in the Caribbean is higher than ever. The Caribbean region, with a number of small developing territories in the hurricane belt, has been pursuing a number of […]
