It may not have been on the scale of the blazes we covered on Wednesday, but once again the fire pumps were working overtime in Belize City. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the fourth time in two days, this afternoon fire officials were called to a house fire, this time at number twelve Vernon Street. According […]
Dry season is always a peak time for fire, and while there is no evidence that the weather played a role in either of two major fires in Belize City, there were some anxious moments this afternoon for residents of the old capital. The first of the back-to-back blazes hit in a part of town […]
And while firefighters were still putting out the flames on Ferrel Lane, the alarm sounded not a dozen blocks away on West Canal. There, a building housing five families and one business was largely destroyed in a fire that once more spread panic through a congested area of the city. Due to an electrical blackout […]
It was a scene straight out of a grade B Hollywood horror flic. But what occurred in Orange Walk on Wednesday morning was no movie. For dozens of students from St. Joseph Primary in Belize City, it was the field trip from hell. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting As part of their educational studies, […]
Late reports out of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, indicate that a fire is currently being fought on that island. The blaze is reported at a house approximately one and a half miles north of the river separating the town from the rest of the caye. We could not confirm the extent of the damage or […]
Around five-thirty on Friday evening, a pilot from the Mennonite community of Blue Creek took off on his last flight in a day of pleasure flying. But as the aircraft, a single engine V-max piloted by twenty-five year old Norman Rempel, circled at one hundred feet, something went terribly wrong. As those on the ground […]
Shortly after three o’clock today, residents of mile two on the Northern Highway became alarmed after they heard a series of explosions. A fire had broken out at the Highway Grocery store. Because the establishment is situated just across from the Shell Depot, people became nervous, concerned that the neighbourhood might be threatened. Jacqueline Woods […]
While many of us were on our way to work, or perhaps even still in bed this morning, fire fighters were called to the scene of a fire in Belize City that erupted just after the residents had left. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The early morning rain did nothing to help extinguish the […]
And concerning a less controversial warning of disaster, the Agriculture Department is asking farmers and residents of the lower Sibun and Belize River Valleys to be on the lookout tonight for flash floods. Extremely heavy rains have been reported in areas upstream which could cause one or both rivers to overflow the banks over the […]
Three days of rain have been an irritant to many Belizeans, but today all that water was a key factor in a man’s death, as a worker toiling in a flooded ditch was electrocuted in Ladyville. Details are sketchy, but we are informed that Marlon Smith, an employee of Jones Cooling and Power, was installing […]
All those contented cows wandering around the bucolic village of Crooked Tree look quaint and harmless… but today one family found out that looks can be dangerously deceiving. Clarita Russell, Mother “It went too far. My child could have been killed and we don’t need anyone to be killed now. It has to be stopped […]
It was another one of those massive blackouts that wasn’t supposed to happen under the efficient management of a well financed and privatised electric company. But last night around eight-thirty Belize was plunged into darkness…and while power was restored to some segments of the grid at various times, it was not until this afternoon that […]
The bodies of three people from Maypen Village who drowned on Thursday night have been retrieved from the Belize River. As we reported on Friday, twenty-three year old Dorian Rhaburn, three-year-old Curtis Rhaburn and fifty-two year old Kendis Moody lost their lives when the motor driven dory they were travelling in hit a log and […]
A community along the Belize River spent today searching for missing loved ones now feared dead. Kendis Moody, fifty-two; Daren Rhaburn, twenty-three; and Curtis Rhaburn, three, were travelling in a dory Thursday night went it suddenly capsized. News 5 was in Maypen this afternoon. Patrick Jones, Reporting The sparsely populated village of Maypen is under […]
The sun had not yet reached the blue horizon this morning when La Isla Bonita was transformed into El Cayo en Fuego. San Pedro’s largest food emporium was on fire and when News 5’s Patrick Jones reached the scene around ten, the building was still belching thick black clouds. Patrick Jones, Reporting Smoke still poured […]
The flight originated in Vera Cruz, Mexico and was headed to La Ceiba, Honduras with a refuelling stop in Belize. But that stop turned to disaster Monday evening when just before five the pilot radioed the control tower at the P.G.I.A. that he was going down. This afternoon I visited the scene of the accident […]
Did you remember this week’s anniversary? It was three years ago that Hurricane Keith hit Belize. In case you forgot what the destruction was like, News 5 has a reminder for you in this next story. Stewart Krohn, Reporting On Friday afternoon it was a distant tropical depression. But by Sunday Keith was a category […]
It’s a story that we’ve covered more times that we care to admit. If you live in Belize City and haven’t smelled the stinking smoke of the garbage dump, don’t get complacent; it’s only a matter of time until the wind changes. Patrick Jones, Reporting One month after the City’s garbage site on the Western […]
Two suspicious fires on Caye Caulker last night have fire officials and the Village Council perplexed. The first blaze destroyed several guesthouses owned by Simon Morris, who is currently away in the United Kingdom, while the second ravaged The Split’s palapa bar on the other side of the island. News 5 was on the scene […]
The fire this morning on the outskirts of Belize City wasn’t a big blaze, but it was enough to put one budding entrepreneur at least temporarily out of business. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is still not known if this pot of water left to boil on the stove is responsible for […]
On Monday we reported on the nasty fire at the Belize City garbage dump…and three days later we regret to inform residents that things are not yet back to normal. Patrick Jones once again finds himself surrounded by a foul environment. Patrick Jones, Reporting It’s not a pretty sight and the smoke and stench coming […]
Fire officials were busy over the weekend and while no one was left homeless, the acrid smell of smoke forced many to leave home. On Saturday, fire broke out at the city garbage site at mile three on the Western Highway. It burned for hours and smoke from the conflagration could be seen bellowing high […]
On Wednesday morning more than thirty bus passengers trying to cross the Belize River found themselves trapped on a runaway ferry. News 5 understands that just after ten yesterday morning, the operator of the Young Gal Ferry in Cayo saw a huge wave of floodwater coming towards him. The wave picked up the ferry, with […]
Tropical storm Claudette poses little or not threat to Belize…that’s the official word from the National Emergency Management Organization. Through a government press release, however, NEMO says that Claudette is still in the area and the preliminary phase issued on Wednesday for Belize remains in effect. The tropical storm has maintained its northwestward track with […]
If you haven’t pulled out your hurricane tracking chart yet, we suggest you do. Tropical Storm Claudette continues to churn towards the Yucatan peninsula and that could mean bad news for Belize. As of six o’clock tonight, the Government of Belize, through the National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO, has declared the preliminary phase of the […]
