It may not officially be classified as part of the damage caused by hurricane Keith, but three people are dead tonight after a bus ran off the road and plunged into the rain-swollen waters of a creek in the Orange Walk District. Details are sketchy, but it is believed that the Venus bus was headed […]
The National Emergency Management Organisation has released a preliminary estimate of damages from hurricane Keith and the figure they have come up with is 200 million U.S. dollars. That breaks down to 45 million in crop damage, 100 million in property damage and 55 million in damage to basic infrastructure such as roads, streets, drains […]
The story of hurricane Keith can be told in broad strokes: the quantity of buildings destroyed, the dollar value of the damage and number of people homeless. But the real story of the storm lies in the hundreds of personal dramas which played out in the lives of ordinary citizens. Today News Five visited a […]
As our team was leaving from the area, they came upon another house that didn’t quite look right. Upon closer inspection, they realised that what appears to be a wooden bungalow was only a few days ago a fully raised upstairs house. All that remains of that upper storey are two concrete staircases.
On yesterday’s newscast we looked at some of the people who rode out Keith in the relative safety of Belize City’s hurricane shelters, most of which were housed in educational institutions. Today, with residents moved back into their own homes, the question arose of who will clean the schools? Jose Sanchez, Reporting Since Keith has […]
Nazarene High School was not used as a shelter, but it still sustained plenty of damage from Keith’s torrential rains. News Five spoke to the school’s principal who is hoping to have the school dry and ready for class next week. Samuel Sukhnandan, Principal, Nazarene High School “Here at Nazarene we estimate the loss of […]
On yesterday’s newscast Jose Sanchez reported on the damage sustained by residents of Caye Caulker. Today cameraman Brent Toombs and I journeyed to San Pedro to see how people there were faring in their efforts to rebuild the storm shattered island. At this time it is difficult to say just how many people on San […]
It has nothing to do with hurricane Keith but before this weekend it caused a storm of controversy among users of the Internet. Today, by order of the Supreme Court, BTL has been prohibited from blocking access to I.P. Star phone devices as well as any other voice over Internet protocols. The order came as […]
