This afternoon, the Office of the Prime Minister confirmed that PCR results indicate that PM Dean Barrow tested negative for the coronavirus; he was swabbed on Thursday and the results were released today. The PM’s Chief of Security, Jeff Gabriel tested positive on Thursday and he had been in contact with Barrow since the start […]
Everywhere, the floods are causing damage to infrastructure and property, though fortunately, there has been no loss of life. The western and southern parts of the country are hard hit and rural Belize residents are bracing for what is to come with the overflow of the Belize River and the Crooked Tree Lagoon. News Five’s […]
The unusual amount of rains has caused shelters to open in affected areas. Some folks from the city, as well as rural communities in the Belize District, headed early to the shelters to stay dry and safe. A resident from the Jerusalem area says she made her way across the London bridges as soon as […]
As the rains came down, politics was at play. U.D.P. standard bearer for Freetown, Orson “OJ” Elrington posted on his Facebook page that since three this morning, he as well as the Director of the National Sports Council, Ian Jones and others were out assessing the situation in flood prone areas of Freetown. While nobody […]
News Five journeyed to Calla Creek Village in the west today where Aurelio Sho responded to reports of a family in distress. The rising Mopan River snakes around Calla Creek causing many residences to flood. Some thirty-five families have been affected and had to move to higher ground. One family had to climb to their […]
At the top of the newscast you saw how the George Price Highway was closed off to vehicular traffic because a hole formed on the middle of the road. Well – that area is known to experience high waters as a result of heavy rains – and just below that near the Beaver Dam Bridge, […]
The death toll for COVID-19 in Belize presently stands at sixty-six persons, as two more patients succumbed to the illness on Thursday. Those fatalities were recorded among two males, one was in his eighties and died at the I.C.U. COVID Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The other was from San Ignacio and was […]
A total of seventy-two additional cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Thursday, following the processing of a batch of almost two hundred and fifty samples that were taken. A majority of those new cases, thirty-six, came from Orange Walk District where the transmission level is high. While there were thirty recoveries, there are presently one […]
Back to the flooding….down south in Sarawee, the North Stann Creek River rose dramatically. NEMO officers out there were monitoring the situation and were expecting the river to rise. Assistant Coordinator for NEMO in Stann Creek, Kevin Flores says that the most affected area is the Belize Site Area where NEMO officers assisted in evacuating […]
In the island town of San Pedro, heavy rains inundated a number of streets in the subdivisions. The images from the island show that residents cannot exit their homes as there are several feet of water in front of their properties. On the lagoon side, several boats sank and despite efforts to retrieve the vessels, […]
And in Caye Caulker, the newly construction police barracks is compromised. When the rains came down, the roof began leaking. Videos show water pouring through the ceiling and atop the door. The barracks was constructed by Gaby’s Construction Company Limited from San Pedro at a cost of three hundred and thirty-six thousand two hundred and […]
Belize has taken a major step to strengthen marine conservation and is among a handful of countries that is putting an end to gillnet fishing in its territorial waters. After years of work by the N.G.O. community, including OCENA, the use of gillnets is now illegal. Late this evening, government announced that it had passed […]
Twelve teachers from Sacred Heart Primary School in Dangriga who were charged by police for attending a restricted social event were let off with a warning. The teachers appeared before the Dangriga Magistrate Court where the charges were dismissed, but not before they were given a warning. As we reported earlier this week, the teachers […]
The rains have not stopped the gun violence. Just before nine on Thursday night, there was a shooting at the corner of Majestic Alley and North Front Street in Belize City. Police say that Majestic Alley resident, forty-five-year-old Lynton Sutherland and others were standing on North Front Street when a white Ford car drove by. […]
The Magistrate’s Court remains closed today after COVID-19 was detected among staff. But at the Supreme Court, a man who is on remand for rape was today granted bail. Justice Antoinette Moore granted twenty-five-year-old Matthew Fuentes bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars in the form of two sureties. The bail conditions are that […]
A CARICOM Election Observation Mission will be in Belize to observe the General Election on Wednesday, November eleventh. Jeannette Sonia Charles of Antigua and Barbuda will head the mission, which will include five other electoral officials from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, and Suriname. While in Belize, the mission is scheduled to meet virtually with […]
As we head into the weekend we will tell about what to expect in weather conditions. The National Hydrological Service has been monitoring the rise in water levels in the Macal and Mopan rivers, as well as the Belize River and other tributaries. Those waterways are becoming swollen and flooding is expected within the next […]
To close our newscast tonight, here is an update about the U.S. elections. Democratic candidate Joe Biden is six electoral votes short of becoming the next President of the United States. At news time this evening, he led Republican candidate, President Donald Trump by fifty electoral votes. While the Associated Press has not called the […]
Now a tropical depression, Eta is predicted to gain strength to become a tropical storm as it heads toward Cuba and Florida in the next few days. It has left behind at least thirteen deaths due to floods and landslides as the storm barrelled Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras. In Belize, heavy rains and flooding continue here, especially […]
There is water everywhere. The level of the Mopan River has also risen significantly; in fact, as much as eight feet above the normal level that villagers in San Jose Succotz are used to. The National Emergency Management Organization has advised that communities along the Mopan are notified that they must be on high alert […]
Also in the west, NEMO rescued two men who were being swept away by the gushing waters of the Mopan River near San Jose Succotz. It is known confirmed what they were doing in the river, some say they were fishing but there is word that they were repairing the cable line. The duo is […]
Tonight, there are about twelve families, or over fifty persons, in shelters at the Bishop Martin Primary School in San Ignacio and the school in Calla Creek in the west. These persons were removed from their homes to avoid casualties as a result of the rising flood waters. Including in the group is a couple […]
Here in the city, the rains have been drenching the Old Capital for days. Families in flood prone areas are feeling the brunt of the inclement weather as their homes beginning to flood with the gushing waters. In other sections of the south side—areas such as Jerusalem that are connected by London bridges—there is concern […]
Central Regional Coordinator Al Westby told News Five that the Belize River Valley area is already on guard for what is to come in the next few days. The water from the Mopan and Macal Rivers are expected to flow down to the Belize District and into the city. The water levels along the Belize […]
The City Emergency Management Organization, headed by Deputy Mayor Michael ‘Chips’ Noralez is undertaking preparatory works in the event that there is also significant flooding in Belize City. In low-lying areas such as the Jane Usher Boulevard community in Port Loyola, the dredging of drains has been ongoing since Tuesday. In other parts of the […]
