We’ve been tracking him for a week and sometime tonight or early tomorrow, Hurricane Dean will make his rendezvous with Belizean history as he comes ashore with sustained winds of over one hundred and fifty miles per hour just north of the Belize-Mexico border. Our reporters and cameramen fanned out countrywide today and we’ll begin […]
If you are a resident of San Pedro or Caye Caulker and have not yet left those islands, it’s too late; we can only wish you the best. But hopefully those numbers are small as from early in the weekend people have been leaving in droves for the mainland. Before travelling to Belmopan, this morning […]
Buses and boats were not the only means of transport hard at work today. Local airlines ferried people off San Pedro and Caye Caulker, while many tourists opted to leave Belize altogether … if they could find a seat on a plane. Ann-Marie Williams, on special assignment for News Five, checked out the scene at […]
As chairman of the National Emergency Management Organization, Prime Minister Said Musa is the man who must listen to the advice of his experts and then make the key decisions on how best to deal with the situation. This afternoon he addressed the nation from Belmopan. Here are some of the highlights. Prime Minister said […]
While the Prime Minister addressed the nation from Belmopan, residents of northern Belize were waking up to the fact that Dean did not take the hoped-for-turn north toward Cancun. News Five’s Kendra Griffith travelled to Corozal this morning to see how preparations were going. Kendra Griffith, Reporting “Drills, saws, hammers, and cash registers were hard […]
While Belize City is not expected to experience the worst hurricane force winds, the geography of the low lying old capital makes it especially vulnerable to rain and high tide, both of which accompany Dean in abundance. This afternoon, as city residents did their last minute shopping Ann-Marie Williams joined them at a popular discount […]
And while shoppers were stocking up, the police were busy planning how best to secure the city when people leave their homes to seek shelter. At a new conference this afternoon the Acting Officer Commanding Eastern Division, Sr. Superintendent Chester Williams, announced a curfew beginning at eight o’ clock this evening. Sr.Superintendant Chester Williams, Eastern […]
And to end our coverage of Hurricane Dean we will return to a familiar place. San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, is the town in Belize that will be the first to feel Dean’s punch and is likely to be hardest hit. When we spoke to him last week, local NEMO coordinator Jim Janmohamed was making preparations […]
