The National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) has issued two advisories today for residents of the south. Torrential rains have affected several low-lying communities in the Toledo District including the villages of Golden Stream, Aguacate, Blue Creek Jordan and Bladen, which are tonight a few feet under water. Approximately fifteen homes in Golden Stream have been […]
A fire interrupted the dead of night on Sunday at La Isla Bonita. Five houses were completely destroyed in one of the island’s biggest fires rendering a total of twenty-four persons homeless. The blaze broke after midnight in the downtown area when the victims were in deep slumber; it was reportedly caused by an electrical […]
It rained over the weekend and parts of the south are threatened by flooding. The National Emergency Management Organization has issued an advisory on water levels and as you can guess, the temporary crossing at the Kendal River is one of the areas of concern but according to NEMO, it is not yet flooded. The […]
A fire broke out in a congested area of San Ignacio this afternoon. Traffic came to a halt when a plume of smoke towered above the downtown area. The Fire Department was immediately called to the scene of the blaze which destroyed a large building. The fire threatened to engulf other structures, but neighbors in […]
The Fire Department headed to the Northern Highway around five thirty this morning after they received frantic calls from various persons. Raul’s Rose Garden, the famous brothel, was up in flames. All that was left by the time the flames consumed the interior of the concrete structure, was debris. And if you are wondering, the […]
After the country went to bed on Thursday night, many homes were thrust into darkness after midnight. It wasn’t the start of the rolling blackouts signaling nonpayment to Comisión Federal de Electricidad of Mexico. The blackouts coincided with very strong winds and rains that pounded Belize City to the northern districts. It was a freak […]
Rhaburn’s home was not the only one damaged. A section of a roof on a home in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City was also blown off. According to the Met Service, the intense winds were clocked at fifty miles an hour. While the forecast had called for a change of weather primarily […]
The dry spell that has caused forest fires in the Mountain Pine Ridge area in Cayo has also been the source of many fires throughout the country. In the Belize District, a bush fire got out of hand and gutted a building in Ladyville. The structure was a warehouse and no one was injured. But […]
Thousands of acres of forests have been consumed by wild fires, and much more are at risk before the rains come pouring down. Hot weather conditions are the fuel to the fires that are erupting and spreading across the country. Close to thirty thousand acres of forest have been ravaged in Mountain Pine Ridge; a […]
While the forest fires are rampant, in the old capital, a thick cloud of smoke spread from a property near the Haulover Bridge and drifted into parts of the City at the start of the weekend. The fire broke just before eight o’clock on Friday and quickly destroyed the building, which was owned by Liston […]
Our news crew has headed out to mile four on the Northern Highway where a two storey wooden structure is completely engulfed in fire. The building is across from the business establishment, Fen Land Company Limited. The blaze has spread quickly and has destroyed the building. Fire officials are on the scene. We’ll have more […]
Across the Pacific, Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake in the island’s history and a tsunami that it unleashed in the aftershocks compounded the problems. The epicenter of the main quake was about two hundred and thirty miles northeast of Tokyo. At last count there were several hundred people confirmed dead but the […]
There was fire in the old capital early this morning. Flames gutted the small structure which belonged to Rudolph Anderson, better known as Sir Andie, the happy home builder. No one lived inside the structure at the corner of Waight Street and Faber’s Road. The National Fire Service believes the cause of the fire is […]
The findings of investigations into Saturday evening’s fire at the girls’ dorm of the Youth Hostel in Rockville at Mile twenty-one on the Western Highway confirm that it was a case of arson. The dorm was home to seventeen girls, four of whom were smoking marijuana in a bathroom when the fire started. The Operations […]
A family of four lost everything today in a midday blaze. The origin of the fire is still being determined but it is widely believed an electrical failure triggered it. The wooden structure was located on Jane Usher Boulevard and took little time to be consumed by the flames. Onlookers watched, unable to access the […]
While two were killed, there was more tragedy when a family of eight lost most of their belongings in a mid-morning inferno on Sunday. The family was not home when the fire broke in one of two houses in the yard and it is believed it could be a case of arson. Julie Thurton rushed […]
It has been a little over three and a half months since Hurricane Richard ravaged parts of central Belize leaving in its wake a number of displaced families and millions of dollars in losses. While the National Emergency Management Organization in tandem with the Belize Red Cross have managed to address the immediate needs of […]
Flames consumed two houses over the weekend; one in the City and the other in Lord’s Bank. The blazes are both believed to have been deliberately set but fortunately no one was injured. A total of eight persons lost all their belongings. We start in Belize City, where Sunday night’s fire followed a quarrel between […]
The second house that went up in fire over the weekend belonged to a single mother, Maria Rodriguez of Lord’s Bank. Rodriguez now has to rebuild a house for her six children, some of whom are of school age. News Five’s Delahnie Bain found out that the family was in the City when the structure […]
A house fire broke out at G.S. Street off Jane Usher Boulevard; normally the story is about a family that needs a place to stay since beds and furniture are often lost. But sadly this fire ended tragically for an elderly woman. Eighty-one year old Olivia Supal lived alone in a small green wooden two […]
While NGOs want full protection of the National Park, the barrier reef came under attack late last week. An investigation is underway into the damage of approximately ten meters, a little over thirty feet, of coral reef near the Blue Hole in the Half Moon Caye Natural Monument, an area co-managed by the Belize Audubon […]
A waitress of Punta Gorda and her nine children are homeless tonight after a fire destroyed their home. Thirty-five year old Rosie Canelo, told police that she was asleep at around two on Sunday afternoon when the blaze woke her up. Canelo says her children were outside playing at the time and none of them […]
Late this afternoon, both the Fire and Police Departments headed to West Landivar where a boat was on fire. The signs all point to arson and according to boat owners, other vessels moored in the area have been targeted. But why and by whom? There is some speculation, yet no one has been held responsible. […]
Many have been left homeless in a spate of fires over the past week. In the latest, a police sergeant and her family were left out in the cold after a blaze swept through their house on Trinity Boulevard on Wednesday night. It is not a good way to start the New Year, for Sergeant […]
It’s the worst time of the year for two families in Dangriga who are tonight homeless. A fire this morning gutted a two-storey structure in the downtown area behind the police station. Despite efforts to contain the blaze, the property was completely destroyed, in the process scorching two other buildings that stood next to it. […]
