As the plight of thousands of Belizeans in the Stann Creek and Toledo districts is broadcast daily by the national media, many agencies, corporations and individuals at home and abroad, continue to donate aid to the victims of Hurricane Iris. On Monday, Fortis Incorporated, majority owners of Belize Electricity Limited, handed over fifty thousand Belize […]
This morning, a pair of local organisations received a total of two hundred thousand Belize dollars to assist in hurricane relief efforts from the United States Government. Ambassador Jim Murphy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received one hundred thousand dollars on behalf of the National Emergency Management Organisation, while Florita Gidwani accepted the other […]
Hurricane Iris not only wreaked havoc on human lives and infrastructure, but also on Belize’s pristine natural environment. One of the major ecological victims is expected to be Belize’s Barrier Reef along with numerous patch reefs and cayes. Although the damage is now being assessed, we asked Ecosystems Management Unit co-ordinator James Azueta to describe […]
Not all the recent damage to Belize has been done by wind and water. On Monday evening fire gutted a family’s residence on Lizarraga Avenue in King’s Park and the victims are no less devastated than any resident of Stann Creek or Toledo. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is believed the fire started in the living […]
The decomposed corpse of a human being has been found in the Cayo District. According to a police report, villagers from Armenia found a human skeleton in a cave just north of the village. A forensic team has been dispatched to the area, but preliminary findings have yet to be released. Villagers tell News 5 […]
As Hurricane Iris neared the coast of Belize and even in the immediate aftermath of her landfall, the public’s attention was focussed on the coastal communities of Placencia, Seine Bight and Independence. Not only were these villages accessible, but they were also familiar places to many Belizeans as tourist or business destinations. Their residents had […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re in tuned with this latest version of Sports Monday. Sports on the national scene has had to take a back seat in the aftermath of Hurricane Iris. The emphasis of late has been on getting the communities hurt by the storm back on their feet. This is why, […]
