National Fire Service investigators have not yet concluded what caused a blaze yesterday in Georgetown Village in which two teenage girls died. However, they are conducting interviews and will forward the file to the D.P.P’s office for further action on possible charges against the parents. The small wooden structure which stood three feet off the […]
Depending on where you live and what time you got up, this morning’s coffee may have had an extra kick, as an earthquake in Chiapas, Mexico shook up many parts of Belize, over four hundred miles away. According to Acting Chief Meteorologist Ramon Frutos, the aftershocks were most prominent over the western and northern sectors […]
The attention of the nation may be focused on tomorrow’s voting but natural disasters don’t pay much attention to politics. News Five’s Marion Ali reports from Ambergris Caye. Marion Ali, Reporting The calm of Wednesday night in San Pedro was interrupted when a huge fire broke out at Wings Store on Coconut Drive facing the […]
Two people are homeless tonight after their two-bedroom house at 3716 Louise Bevans Street was damaged by fire early Saturday morning. The occupant of the house, Latoya Coleman, says she was at work at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital when she received the disturbing news. Latoya Coleman, Fire victim “I gone da work about ten-thirty […]
Two young children are alive tonight because of their brave big brother who entered a burning building to save them. According to fire officials, around eight on Sunday morning, they received reports that the house at number ten Hibiscus Lane in the Lake Independence area was engulfed in flames. The cause of the blaze is […]
A toddler died this afternoon after he received burns to fifty percent of his body. Thirty year-old Jaime Rivero Senior told police that on Sunday afternoon he was inside the bedroom of his home at mile four and a half on the Northern Highway while his son, Jaime Junior was outside in a bathroom corridor […]
They had a great idea to export coffee from Belize to the United States using an energy efficient sailboat, but three Texans who departed San Pedro on Christmas Eve with a cargo of roasted coffee beans had to be rescued on Tuesday afternoon in the Gulf of Mexico. The husband and wife team of Joe […]
And before we sign off, late word out of Dangriga reports a massive fire in the downtown area. Details are sketchy, but sometime after five this evening the blaze erupted at the Habet residence on St. Vincent Street. At this point, the greatest danger is to surrounding buildings as firemen continue to fight the conflagration.
A fire in the wee hours of Sunday morning has totally destroyed a well-known entertainment spot in Seine Bight Village. The Wamasa Beyabu beach bar was burned to the ground by a fire of unknown origin that began sometime before five a.m. Investigators from the National Fire Service visited the scene yesterday but have yet […]
Details are slowly emerging on yesterday’s aviation mishap at the Corozal municipal airstrip. Contrary to information reported to us last night from the scene, the Maya Island Air flight en route to San Pedro never did leave the ground. It appears that the takeoff was aborted and the plane rolled off the end of the […]
Tonight eleven passengers and a pilot are counting their blessings after they survived a crash-landing in Corozal. News Five understands that the single engine Cessna Caravan, belonging to Maya Island Air, had just taken off from the airstrip in Ranchito Village at around five fifteen this evening when it apparently experienced engine failure. The pilot, […]
Many Belizeans are breathing a little easier tonight as November thirtieth officially marks the close of hurricane season 2007. While this year wasn’t as active as originally predicted, the rare event of two category five storms developing in the Western Caribbean significantly impacted Belize. On August twenty-first, Hurricane Dean barrelled into northern Belize packing winds […]
There is little new to report in the case of the six fishermen still missing at sea, and as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, the cold reality is we may never know exactly what happened. Audrey Matura Shepherd, Family Spokesperson “I could confidently say that they are at the stage where they are not giving […]
While the search continues for six men missing at sea, there was a happy ending for thirty-three passengers and crew aboard a vessel named the “Aqua Dive”. Police report that the boat ran aground Monday evening on the reef near Goff’s Caye. The distress call was picked up by the Port Authority and relayed to […]
The news spread across the nation like a fast moving cold front. Whether by phone, email, text message or face to face, the words were the same: “They found a body.” And while the week old unexplained disappearance of a group of anglers is tonight a little bit less mysterious, there are still more questions […]
But as family members cling to the hope that the other six men are still alive, the results of the post mortem conducted on the body of Magistrate Richard Swift has brought little comfort. According to forensic pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran, the deceased as identified as Swift through dental records, a scar on his foot […]
Following the police press briefing in Belize City, Estradabran, Police and Coast Guard officials headed to Ladyville where family members of the missing men gathered to hear the latest developments in the case. But it was clear that the discovery of Richard Swift has only brought more questions, not answers. Grayson Ewing, Family of Missing […]
After five days, an intensive search covering more than one hundred and fifty square miles of cayes, mangrove swamps, and open sea have not turned up any concrete evidence of what may have happened to seven men missing since Sunday. This evening the families and the Coast Guard Service held a joint press conference to […]
It has been four days since seven men went missing while on a fishing trip at sea. And despite an intensive air and sea rescue effort, there has been no sign of them. The families of the men today revisited the area where the recovered vessel, the Ocean Hopper, was found near Gallows Point in […]
But as the families of the missing continue to hope their loved ones will be found, police investigators have been carefully analyzing the Ocean Hopper and other pieces of recovered property in an attempt to determine what may have transpired on Sunday. Supt. Aaron Guzman, Officer Commanding C.I.B. “We did process the boat so see […]
Up to news time tonight, there was still no sign of the seven friends who went out fishing on Sunday from Belize City and never returned. Family members will be meeting for a prayer service at seven tonight and they are appealing to members of the public to donate any available assistance towards the efforts […]
Tonight the families of seven men missing at sea since Sunday continue to cling to hope that their loved ones are alive and well. The search took a turn for the worse around eleven this morning when a fisherman reported seeing a vessel fitting the description of the missing boat in the area off Gallows […]
And while their families continue to pray for the missing men’s safety, Orange Walk police have yet to recover the body of teenager who is believed to have drowned while fishing in the Honey Camp Lagoon. According to police, eighteen year old Alfonso Cawich, sixteen year old Simon Loria, and nineteen year old Alfredo Buendia […]
Tonight eighteen tourists and four local crew members are lucky to be alive following an explosion aboard a dive boat on Thursday afternoon. According to three Canadian divers on “Miss Mel” at the time of the incident, the vessel was just moving off to another site off Long Caye near Lighthouse Reef when they heard […]
While there is only a minor disturbance being monitored in the Caribbean Sea tonight, six years ago Belize was battening down for the arrival of Hurricane Iris. The category four storm made landfall around seven-thirty on the night of October eighth, 2001, with the eye passing just north of Monkey River. Weather experts would later […]
