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A fatal road traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway has left a sixth form student dead and as many as eleven persons with multiple degrees of injuries. According to police, twenty-one-year-old Jorge Vargas was traveling in a taxi van along with six other passengers when the vehicle collided head-on into a Toyota Land Cruiser […]
Written on October 12, 2022 | Posted in
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The family of Aaliyah Marokin, one of the surviving students in Tuesday evening’s tragic accident on the Philip Goldson Highway, is seeking answers from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital as to why the Corozal resident was placed on a waiting list. According to one spokesperson for the family who chose to remain anonymous for fear […]
Written on October 12, 2022 | Posted in
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Over the extended weekend, twenty-year-old Gerson Cardova was knocked down in San Lazaro Village in a hit-and-run incident involving a police officer who was fleeing from a traffic checkpoint in Orange Walk District. The officer who is being placed on interdiction, is believed to have committed a traffic offense prior to knocking down Cardova. Assistant […]
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The vehicular checkpoint near the entrance to Hattieville has been done away with following a directive from Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. The decision was taken on the heels of recent allegations that officers assigned to the post had been extorting motorists. Last week, two persons came forward accusing an officer of shaking them down […]
Written on October 12, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Minister of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management joined a team from the National Emergency Management Organization on a flyover to observe the areas that are currently affected by severe flooding. The team included personnel from the Hydrology Unit, the Engineering Department and the ministries of Infrastructure Development and House and Agriculture. The […]
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As of now, it is difficult to assess the financial damages. When the water subsides, a better assessment of the damages can be carried out. The flyover also took the team into the Mountain Pine Ridge area where the dams are spilling. Minister Orlando Habet says that as a country, we must learn from natural […]
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News Five’s Duane Moody took a trip to the Belize River Valley area where the Belize River is already swelling and the banks being taken in by the rising water level. The entrance to Gracie Rock Village off the George Price Highway is under about a foot of water and continues to rise. This morning, […]
Written on October 12, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a daring rescue earlier today along the Coastal Road where a vehicle driver whose delivery truck was inundated by floodwater had to be saved from the raging current. It was a successful effort at saving the life of one individual. But tonight, other parts of the country remain submerged as flood waters are […]
Written on October 11, 2022 | Posted in
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Many vendors and business owners had to pack up their appliances and products and relocate to higher ground in an effort to minimize the damages associated with the flood. In this report from News Five’s Duane Moody, within a short period of doing interviews in downtown San Ignacio with business owners, the flood water entered […]
Written on October 11, 2022 | Posted in
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Flood waters from Mopan and Macal Rivers in the west will find their way down to the Belize District. And so, communities along the Belize River should be preparing for that eventuality. Over the weekend, water levels in Roaring Creek had already been rising. Again, it is not as devastating as 2020, but residents are […]
Written on October 11, 2022 | Posted in
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Residents living along the Belize River in the Belize District are being advised to seek higher grounds as flood waters from Cayo District are rapidly moving east. According to Lieutenant Colonel Shelton Defour, the Belize River Valley Area can expect a significant flooding event. Here is what he told reporters this evening via zoom, during […]
Written on October 11, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, Monkey River Village in southern Belize is only accessible by sea. Flood waters have completely cut off the village by land. And, while that is the situation those residents are faced with today, Monday brought its own set of challenges. High tides and rough sea conditions dealt a severe blow to residents living along […]
Written on October 11, 2022 | Posted in
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On Sunday evening in Belize City, a vortex in Lake-I destroyed several homes, as it made its way across part of the community. The neighborhood most impacted was the area near McKay Boulevard, where the whirlwind pulled apart roofs, knocked down fence and threatened to topple power lines. It came and went quickly and left […]
Written on October 11, 2022 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Agriculture has already sent out personnel to assess the agricultural damages associated with this weekend’s flooding. According to Minister Orlando Habet, flood waters will have to recede before the Government of Belize can calculate the value of the damages. But, what he did inform us is that losses are significant. Orlando […]
Written on October 11, 2022 | Posted in
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Brace yourself for the effects of Tropical Storm Julia. The weather system is expected to make landfall in Nicaragua on Sunday morning, as a category one hurricane. TS 13 is barrelling along a westward trajectory at sustained winds of forty miles per hour and moving at a speed of eighteen miles per hour. Rapid weakening […]
Written on October 7, 2022 | Posted in
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Direct landfall from Tropical Storm Julia is not expected in Belize. And while tropical storm or hurricane conditions are unlikely to affect the country, the system will produce heavy rainfall which could lead to massive flooding across the country, especially in the south. Chief Meteorologist Ronald Gordon says that residents in flood prone areas should […]
Written on October 7, 2022 | Posted in
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Current weather conditions are already affecting the country with a total of one to two inches of rainfall today. There will be an additional one to two inches of rainfall on Saturday and then three to five inches of rain on Sunday and Monday. Belize City, which is already below sea level, is known to […]
Written on October 7, 2022 | Posted in
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Ten years after the horrific death of twenty-nine-year-old Lyndon Morrison, his former girlfriend, Calaney Flowers, is heading to court once again for a re-trial. Viewers would recall that on March twenty-fourth, 2017, after five years in pretrial detention, Flowers was acquitted of the charge of murder. At the time, Justice Troadio Gonzalez who presided over […]
Written on October 6, 2022 | Posted in
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The National Meteorological Service of Belize and the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) is monitoring a potential tropical cyclone located just north of Venezuela. Referred to as P.T.C 13, the system is moving westward at fifteen miles per hour and is likely to make landfall in Nicaragua and Honduras by Sunday morning. NEMO’s latest advisory […]
Written on October 6, 2022 | Posted in
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In mid-September, we told you about a strain of avian influenza that was detected in the poultry industry in the north. In the wake of its detection, eight farms – seven in Blue Creek and one in Shipyard – had to be quarantined. In the case of two of the farms, the chickens were destroyed, […]
Written on October 6, 2022 | Posted in
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Millions of dollars in losses have been recorded for the poultry industry in the north, but Minister of Agriculture, Jose Abelardo Mai, says that the country will not experience any shortage in poultry products since the Spanish Lookout producers will pick up the slack. While the country had battled a similar case of bird flu […]
Written on October 6, 2022 | Posted in
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Are Belizeans still at risk of paying a higher price for a sixteen-ounce pack of bread? That is a decision that will be made by cabinet at the start of the new year when the bread subsidy expires. Earlier this year, bakers announced that they would have to increase the cost of the sixteen-ounce pack […]
Written on October 6, 2022 | Posted in
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The National Meteorological Service is keeping a close eye on a low pressure system that has developed just off the coast of South America, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. While it poses no immediate threat to Belize, there is a likelihood that its path through Nicaragua and Honduras, should it gain strength in the days […]
Written on October 5, 2022 | Posted in
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According to the Chief Met Officer, while they are better able to predict the movement of the system, meteorologists have not been able to calculate the intensity of the weather system. At the moment, the system near South America remains somewhat unpredictable. Ronald Gordon, Chief Meteorological Officer “All indications are that it should be […]
Written on October 5, 2022 | Posted in
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COVID-19 numbers continue to spiral downward in Belize. In fact, this is the trend globally. Hospitalizations have also decreased, as a result. Over the last five weeks, Belize’s positivity rate has remained below five. Today, we received an update from Doctor Melissa Diaz-Musa on the latest COVID figures. Dr. Melissa Diaz Musa, Director of […]
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