Pictorials coming in a few minutes As we see the images of the devastation in Honduras and Nicaragua, Belizeans all across the country are thanking God we were spared from the full fury of Hurricane Mitch. But it was a week of fear and disruption nevertheless. Most of us based our decision to move to […]
The Prime Minister Said Musa returned today after a week long visit to Taiwan with the Minister for Budget and Planning Ralph Fonseca. Although he was far from home during the Mitch crisis the Prime Minister was constantly updated on what was happening in Belize. Today, just minutes after he touched down at the P.G.I.A. […]
News Five also spoke with Deputy Prime Minister John Briceño, who although he had only been sworn in two months ago, shouldered the enormous responsibility of leading the country during the hurricane threat. John Briceño, Deputy Prime Minister “I think I must thank all the help that I had; all of the ministers were out […]
While Belize escaped Mitch without any casualties, others of course were not so fortunate. While the death toll climbs into the thousands in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala, of particular concern to Belizeans is the fate of thirty-one crew members on the tall ship known as the “Phantome”. Viewers may recall that last Monday the vessel, […]
The saga of the Phantome illustrates the importance of early and accurate weather forecasting. And while no one would suggest that Belize’s own meteorologists are anything less than first rate, a series of unfortunate events left the Met office significantly impaired during the recent crisis. This afternoon News Five’s Stewart Krohn spoke with former Chief […]
As thousands of Belizeans moved to higher grounds from the threat of hurricane Mitch, most radio stations remained on air round the clock, to keep the nation inform and prepared in case the storm hit Belize. Today we caught up with Rene Villanueva and Gerald Garbutt, General Managers of Love FM and FM 2000 who […]
While most responsible citizens were in shelters inland or quietly waiting out the storm in their homes, there were those who tried to profit from an evacuation situation. Between the twenty-seventh and twenty-ninth of October fifty people, forty-two men and eight women were arrested for breaking into Chinese business establishments. Head of the Criminal Investigations […]
If you have borrowed money from the Belize Bank and are trying to recover from the financial burden brought on by the threat of Hurricane Mitch, we have a bit of good news for you. The bank has announced that it will defer one month’s payment free of service charge on all Action Plan Loans, […]
For the majority of Belizeans, Hurricane Mitch was a second hand storm. We felt some rain, but the winds stayed an abstract number on the weather channel. We had no idea by looking out our windows — the few which weren’t boarded up anyway — of the storm’s real power. But those who remained on […]
