If you don’t live in the Ladyville area you may have had only a short glimpse of a water spout, or what can be termed as a mini tornado by local standards. And as Marion Ali discovered, while the phenomenon is not reported to have caused any major damage as it zipped just north of […]
A late afternoon fire in Belize City partially destroyed a popular fast food restaurant. The National Fire Service was called to MK Fast Food and Ice Cream at the corner of Euphrates Avenue and Orange Street sometime after four o’clock where they found the lower flat of the two storey building on fire. It is […]
An investigation conducted by the National Fire Service into the weekend blaze that claimed the lives of siblings Alexander and Archangel Higinio in Dangriga Town has been concluded. The result of the inquiry clarifies that while the fire was caused by a faulty appliance it was not electrical. The police investigation, however, continues. News Five […]
The Benguche community in Dangriga Town is today reeling from the deaths of two children who perished in an overnight fire at the start of the weekend. It is a tragedy that sees an extended family searching for answers into the heartbreaking loss of their loved ones. Both parents left the siblings Alexander and Archangel […]
A fire has totally destroyed a nightclub and partially damaged a house on Carillo Puerto Street in San Ignacio Town. The blaze was reported around three on Sunday morning and according to Inspector Dinsdale Thompson, there is not much to go on but a hunch. Insp. Dinsdale Thompson “A house was under fire. Upon arriving […]
June to November: that’s the hurricane season and in those months residents are usually on edge about the possibility of a disaster. Well, this year there is even more cause for concern because the Colorado State University team has released the predictions for the season, which is expected to be above average. The effects of […]
While we look forward to every year for the Cross Country Cycling Classic, there is one event that many residents of the old capital dread, and that is the annual fire at the city’s dumpsite on the Western Highway. The smoldering stench and smoke tend to hover over large portions of the city and has […]
It’s a growing tourist destination, but over the weekend Placencia Village was the location of an inferno that demolished four buildings. At about three-thirty on Saturday afternoon the village volunteer fire team received reports of the blaze and when they arrived at the scene the first building was engulfed in flames. The strong wind caused […]
Thick smoke and flames coming from a house on Lindo’s Alley early this morning alerted the neighborhood to the fire that gutted everything inside the wooden building. The fire service responded and managed to put out the blaze before it could spread to any of the nearby buildings, but they have not yet been able […]
It was a stronger tremor but the damage of the eight point eight earthquake in Chile on February twenty-seventh, paled in comparison to the devastation in Haiti caused by a magnitude seven point O on January twelfth. While the difference in magnitude doesn’t sound like much because it is measured on an exponential scale, the […]
There were two earthquakes today in the same general area in Central America. And while they were not strong enough to cause any major damages, they moved the earth enough to raise some brows. But as Marion Ali found out, this week has been a pretty busy one. Marion Ali, Reporting Their magnitudes were not […]
In northern Belize, the Crooked Tree Police Station had not in use for about five years because the building was unfit. And after a blaze last night, the station was reduced from a dilapidated structure to mere rubble. Corporal Donald Gillett, who is in charge of the area, says the building and contents were completely […]
It has been a bumpy ride for the family of Belize City resident Bernadine Cattouse. One year ago, she lost her seventeen year old daughter, Michelle, to rivalry between gangs when she was shot on Belcan Bridge after leaving the Putt-Putt Bar. Three months later, another daughter, ten year old Carolyn was injured when the […]
Just before news time, a blaze has left a single woman homeless. The small wooden structure at number twenty-four Baracat Street caught fire after the woman, Joyce McClaren, left home for work. Fire fighters on the scene told News Five that they got the call just after five-thirty this evening. Nothing was salvaged in the […]
Police and fire officials are investigating a case of arson in the Old Capital. It occurred shortly before dawn today when the wooden home of twenty-nine year old Sylvia August went up in flames after a man allegedly set the home on fire. His identity is not known, but neighbours saw when he fled the […]
The widely circulated Guatemalan newspaper, Prensa Libre, carried a provocative article this past Wednesday, claiming that members of the Belize Defence Force have been entering and raiding two villages on the Guatemalan side. It is all ironic because the reverse takes place frequently, and it is well documented that Guatemalans too often encroach on Belizean […]
On Thursday in the Cayo district, a simulation exercise was held to test the preparedness of the National Emergency Management Organization. And in Belize City today, meetings began to discuss hurricanes and all other disasters. The Belize City Emergency Management Organization Committee met for the first time for 2010 to go over their plans for […]
Two major rivers flow through the Cayo District and that makes the area prone to flooding. Today the National Emergency Management Organization tested its preparedness for such an eventuality. NEMO committees, the Red Cross and other agencies converged in the west today for a simulation exercise that started as early as seven o’clock this morning. […]
A late night fire on Iguana Street Extension in Belize City gutted a small wooden bungalow. The building was owned by Brukdong King and Legendary music Icon, Wilfred Peters, who is recovering in the hospital and rented to a tenant identified only as Lisa. When the fire broke around eleven-thirty Wednesday night, Lisa was not […]
Before the fire in Belize City on Pelican Street Extension, in Burrell Boom, another house went up in flames. Like in the Belize City fire, the origin of this blaze is unknown. The head of the family, Fabian Rivero is a pastor, and he and his family were in Belize City when their house went […]
A Punta Gorda family that came to the city on a Christmas shopping trip, is heading home empty handed. The Majano family had stocked up their Isuzu vehicle and were about to leave the city this afternoon when the vehicle combusted near mile two on the northern highway. The fire started in the blink of […]
An early morning blaze left two persons without a roof over their heads after the wooden bungalow structure they called home was destroyed. The fire broke sometime around six-thirty this morning and it is believed it started from the living room of the small house. The two tenants, Cedric Baptist and Brian McKenzie, were not […]
In another fire in Belize City, the employees of the Immigration Department were threatened by a midmorning fire. The blaze originated from an exposed wire leading to an air condition unit. Luckily, it was caught on time and the employees were able to put it out before it could spread. Damages were minor and the […]
Two families in Caye Caulker will be spending Christmas without their homes following a midday fire. Fortunately, no one was hurt but the families lost all their belongings. The Fire Department experienced mechanical problems and could not contain the blaze from spreading to an adjacent house which was also destroyed. If that sounds familiar, it’s […]
Shortly before ten this morning a fire erupted at a wooden bungalow at the corner of Magazine Road and Ebony Street. By the time the fire department could get to the scene, the fire spread quickly and destroyed the entire building and its contents. No one was at the Baldwin Family home at the time […]
