It is a story that arrives with a bang about twice every year–miraculously with few injuries. Jacqueline Woods reports on the latest old Belize City house to call it quits. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The two storey wooden building provided shelter for the Vernon family for the past nineteen years, but around 9:30 on Sunday night […]
For the past two months, it has been our sad duty to report a long list of tragic deaths of Belizean children…the victims of various accidents. This morning, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods travelled to the village of Burrell Boom in the Belize District, the scene of the latest misfortune. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Just after 1:00 […]
Refusing to give up hope, search parties were back on the sea today looking for any sign of the vessel “The Demonstrator” and her passengers. News 5 understands that efforts are being made to bring in special equipment from the United States to scan the sea floor for the wreckage. On Friday, December twenty-seventh, Johnston […]
Family members of three people missing at sea are still clinging to the now slim possibility that their loved ones are safe. Johnston International employees Ian Jackson and Charles Moody, accompanied by Moody’s seven year old son, were last seen leaving the Radisson pier around five p.m. on Friday where they had fuelled The Demonstrator, […]
As darkness descended, an intensive air and sea search underway for three people missing at sea since Friday night were forced to return to Belize City empty handed. News 5 understands that Johnston International employees: project manager Ian Jackson and mechanic Charles Moody, accompanied by Moody’s seven year old son, left Belize City around five […]
Fire officials were busy this weekend after blazes in Belize City damaged three houses and left seven people homeless. The first fire started around one Friday morning at an abandoned building at number fifty Tigris Street. Flames quickly gutted the building and the wind carried sparks to a nearby house. The occupants of that house, […]
Tragedy in the air was narrowly avoided late Friday evening after a Tropic Caravan was forced to make a wet landing just shy of the island’s airstrip. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the details. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It had been raining all day when Gulf Hotel, a Cessna Caravan 208, owned by Tropic Air departed […]
Looking at the circumstances of a fire that occurred this weekend in Belize City, tonight we could have easily been reporting on multiple fatalities. That we’re not is attributable to sheer luck. Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting Twenty-four year old Beverly Ebanks was not at home at 2:30 a.m. when the flames were seen […]
Traffic on the Western Highway came to a standstill late this afternoon after a gas truck caught fire. According to fire officials, the call came in just after four that a truck was engulfed in flames near mile six and within minutes of their arrival, the blaze had been extinguished. Thankfully, the BWEL butane truck […]
The first call came in just as we were coming on the air, and by the middle of Friday’s newscast we managed to get the initial pictures and information on the air. Today, most of the evidence is in and it suggests that a sad set of circumstances led to the death of two men […]
A father and son are dead tonight following a fire at 29 East Canal this evening. Eighty year old Mario Aguilar, the owner of the building, and forty-five year old Lucho Aguilar, died in the blaze, which claimed the upper flat of the cement structure. Assistant Fire Chief, Ted Smith, says his department received the […]
When it departed Big Creek at around 4 o’clock this evening, it seemed like a routine flight to Belize City. However, the pilot, Daniel Perdomo, his co-pilot and four passengers on board the single engine Cessna 206 got a rude awakening upon landing at the Municipal Airport. As it tried to touch down, the plane […]
On Tuesday their tiny bodies were trapped inside a burning building and they perished in the inferno. Today, fire officials blame an electrical fault as the cause of the fire which claimed the lives of three year-old Xina Williams and her brother, four year-old Francisco, of eighteen and a half miles on the Stann Creek […]
It was a catastrophe that shocked the close knit series of villages along the Hummingbird Highway and Stann Creek Valley Road. But for most Belizeans, the death of two children in a mysterious fire remained a tragedy without a face…until now, that is. This afternoon I travelled south and discovered that there are still more […]
The quiet of the Valley Community at mile eighteen and a half on the Stann Creek Valley Road was shattered today by a fire which claimed the lives of two small children. Reports are that shortly after 11:00 this morning neighbours heard the children screaming, but thought that they were being disciplined by their mother […]
A Saturday morning fire has destroyed what was home for two Belize City families. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited the scene this morning. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The blaze that completely destroyed the two storey wooden building on Neal Pen Road left eleven persons homeless. Michelle Young, one of the fire victims, says she had just […]
Over the weekend the night sky was filled with billowing smoke and a blaze of red as fire burned its way through two buildings in Belize City and threatened several others. News 5’s Rick Romero was on Gabourel Lane on Saturday night to capture the dramatic images, and today Marion Ali joined the fire fighters […]
With the worst part of the hurricane season behind us, many Belizeans are tempted to breathe a sigh of relief that after three major hurricanes in four years, mother nature has finally given us a break. But not so fast…for it was on October thirty-first, 1961 that a monster storm named Hattie slammed into the […]
It is by no means certain that we will ever know exactly what or who started Sunday’s calamitous blaze in the Paslow building, but before the embers even cooled, investigators from the fire department were looking for clues. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has an update. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It has still not yet been determined […]
It may not have required the services of the fire department’s now famous ladder truck, but a blaze in a Belize City neighbourhood early this morning kept fire fighters more than busy. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Fire fighters were back at the scene sifting through the debris to try and determine […]
The Monday morning quarterbacks and armchair firemen wasted no time in criticising Sunday’s performance by the National Fire Service. But when all is said and done, what could have gone down as one of the most devastating fires in the nation’s history was instead confined to the top floor of the Paslow Building. When News […]
The damage occasioned by Sunday’s fire will be felt first and foremost by those people involved with proceedings in Magistrate’s Court. With all six courtrooms and related offices totally destroyed, the wheels of justice, never too swift in the best of times, may grind to a temporary halt. Speaking to the press this morning, Attorney […]
Before we leave the subject of fire, we regret to report another major blaze, this one in Corozal. The Pearl Touch sewing factory, a Taiwanese owned business we profiled on this newscast in July, was largely destroyed over the weekend. We were unable to obtain a report on how the fire started, but we are […]
We may have dodged Hurricane Isidore, but its effects on the Yucatan peninsula may yet be felt in Belize. According to a release today from Belize Electricity Limited, the damage to the power grid around Merida may mean that less electricity will be available for sale to Belize. Mexico normally supplies about twenty-five megawatts or […]
While most of the nation took advantage of Tuesday’s holiday to either party or catch up on some rest, one Belize City family will always remember the tenth of September as the day their house burned down. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting By the time fire fighters arrived on the scene, the two bedroom […]
