Tonight, Belizeans are being advised to monitor local radio stations, and if possible, the Weather Channel, as tropical storm Claudette is gearing up to become a hurricane…in our area…by Thursday night. According to Meteorologist Justin Hulse, tropical storm Claudette is the fastest moving storm he’s ever seen, travelling west at a clip of some thirty […]
A Belize City family is without their home tonight as a simple act of carelessness appears to have started a fire. Patrick Jones was on the scene this afternoon. Patrick Jones, Reporting The Griffith residence on Bachelor Avenue erupted in flames around midday today. By the time fire officials extinguished the fire, the upstairs of […]
A post mortem was conducted earlier today on the body of a construction supervisor who died on Saturday at the Bliss Institute renovation site. According to co-workers, just after two on Saturday afternoon, site supervisor Crecenciano Zaraut was consulting with his boss, engineer Angel Garcia, in the centre of the building zone, when a forty-foot […]
It is the blessing and curse of many tourism facilities scattered across the country…remote locations. But distance was not necessarily a factor in the destruction of a resort in the Stann Creek District early Monday evening. According to Gregorio Chun, Manager of Tu Tzil Nah Resort, located near Maya Centre Village at mile thirteen on […]
With virtually the whole of Belize baked bone dry, the sound of fire engines is the last thing anyone wants to hear. But last night around eight all the city’s new equipment could not prevent the destruction of a warehouse on the industrial outskirts of the old capital. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting When Fire fighters arrived […]
Dry weather and what appear to be some careless or bad-minded children have combined to make three families homeless tonight. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on the latest senseless fire to strike Belize City. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It did not take long for fire fighters to out the flames, but there was nothing they could […]
Around two on Sunday morning, most of the country was plunged into total darkness after Belize Electricity Limited suffered a major equipment breakdown. According to B.E.L.’s Corporate Communications Manager, Neville Samuels, the power failure occurred after one of the switches at their Corozal substation was damaged because of dust contamination. Samuels says at the time […]
For eight years it was theirs to call home; then in an instant, it was all gone. A Belize City family is tonight out in the street after their home collapsed under the weight of what appears to be a combination of time and neglect. Patrick Jones has their story. Marcia Robinson, Occupied Fallen House […]
Easter is no stranger to the tragedy of fire, and this weekend ran true to form. In the wee hours of Sunday morning flames engulfed a nightspot on Barrack Road in Belize City. While the conflagration was eventually confined to three buildings, one was totally destroyed. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Queen’s Club was still open […]
The dry weather that invariably brings in Holy Week is also a time of increased danger from fire. As if the prospect of natural disaster was not bad enough, some city residents seem bent on giving Mother Nature a helping hand. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting This afternoon firemen were quick to respond to […]
This morning, the frightening sight of thick, black smoke rising in the air over the fire prone Pickstock Division, sent nervous residents into panic mode and left one family without a home. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thick smoke filled the skies over Belize City this morning as flames engulfed the upper […]
Gusty winds and a wild fire proved disastrous for one Hopkins hotel on Sunday morning. Reports are that embers from a nearby brush fire ignited the thatch roof of the main building at Jaguar Reef Lodge and within minutes had spread to several other buildings. Hotel staff, guests, and volunteers, tried to bring the flames […]
With a smoky haze covering virtually the entire country, Belizeans can’t help but think of fire. And as Jacqueline Woods discovered, the danger is real, whether you live in an urban or rural environment. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The one bedroom house where the fire started burned to the ground destroying everything inside, and it did […]
Most citizens of Belize City had partied hard over the long post election holiday weekend and were finally catching up on their rest. But in one southside neighbourhood, this morning’s calm was broken by a familiar calamity. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Flames, intense heat, smoke and sparks from a downed electrical wire kept […]
It is a tragedy that has become far too familiar: a lethal combination involving a baby and a bucket of water. This weekend the scene of the disaster was Ladyville. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Peaches Angelique Garbutt would have turned two years old in April. But the little girl did not live to celebrate her birthday. […]
Fire is an ever-present danger in a city crowded with old wooden buildings…but as we get further into the dry season the probability of a major disaster increases. This afternoon, a rapidly expanding blaze was extinguished, but not before making a number of families homeless. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The fire burnt four […]
A dramatic river rescue by a joint British/Belizean team in the Cayo District over the weekend saved a U.S. student from the jaws of death. News 5 understands that just after one p.m. on Friday, twenty-two year old Daniel Brown, a student doing environmental course work in Belize, was swimming in the Macal River when […]
A small Belize City business has been partially destroyed by fire. Michelle James, an Orange Walk woman who operates a boutique at 3599 Central American Boulevard, had just left the premises with her daughter around 6:30 Tuesday night, when minutes later neighbours saw flames rising from the roof of the building. Fire officials soon arrived […]
An afternoon fire in Belize City has left one man homeless and a school building charred and waterlogged. Around one o’clock today, residents of Freetown Road saw smoke coming from this wooden building at number fifty-two Freetown Road. Within minutes, flames had engulfed the structure and began to lick at the Bethel primary school building. […]
Shortly after one this afternoon, fire broke out at number ninety-three Boots Crescent in the Port Loyola area of Belize City. The blaze completely destroyed the property of Teresita and Reynaldo Soberanis. According to neighbours, they saw smoke coming from inside the bedroom of the house and then flames totally engulfed the building. At the […]
One man is dead and another missing after a fishing trip off the coast of Toledo ended in disaster. Twenty-six year old Enfield Arzu of Punta Gorda reported to police that around 12:20 Saturday afternoon he and two friends, Carl Ramclam and Alfred Smith, went fishing east of town. Arzu says they decided to return […]
The fact that it’s a familiar story does not make it any less tragic. You know the ingredients: a wooden house, a lit candle and a parent not at home. This time the damage was only to property…and for that I suppose we should be thankful. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, […]
Twenty-year-old Paulina Coc says there was nothing anyone could have done to save her one month old baby from a fiery death. The infant girl perished in a fire that broke out at the family’s house in Cattle Landing around 7:30 on Thursday night. According to the mother, the baby was sleeping in the bedroom […]
And while we’re on the subject of fresh water, we should note that all the water dropped on Belize during hurricanes is also fresh. The eve of the dry season may not be the best time to discuss such storms, but the latest prediction from noted hurricane forecaster William Gray of Colorado State University calls […]
Tonight, we regret to report that the search for three people missing at sea since December twenty-seventh has officially been called off. On Wednesday, a memorial service will be held for British national Ian Jackson, Charles Moody, and Moody’s eleven-year-old son, Shane. The two men were both working for contractor Johnston International. The trio left […]
