Hurricane Dean is now history … for Belize at least, and the story tonight is not what Dean did … but what it didn’t do. Considering that the monster category five storm, packing one hundred and sixty-five mile per hour winds, made landfall just north of Chetumal, we would not have been surprised to hear […]
As dawn broke this morning, thousands of Belizeans, many of whom barely slept—woke up to reports of which places suffered and which were spared. Radio coverage—the nation’s lifeline in times of emergency—indicated that various communities in the north had been hit hard, but the accounts were largely anecdotal. To get a better feeling for the […]
This afternoon the Belize Police Department held a press briefing to give an account of their performance during Hurricane Dean. According to Acting O.C. of the Eastern Division, Senior Superintendent Chester Williams, the eight p.m. to nine a.m. curfew, along with vigorous patrols kept crime to a minimum in the old capital, with only three […]
When we reported last week on the collapse of a house in Belize City, we noted that it was an event that, unfortunately, was not all that rare. Tonight we’ve got another falling house story, this time on Iguana Street … and while we’re not sure how large a role Hurricane Dean played in the […]
While Dean may have hastened the demise of the Leslie home in Belize City, the damage suffered by homeowners in Corozal and Orange Walk was far from inevitable. I’ve just returned from a survey of the northern districts and found that while some people are hurting, hope is alive. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting This is what […]
San Pedro, Ambergis Caye: it’s the powerhouse of Belize’s vital tourism industry. And when it looked like the island would take a licking there were fears that the entire Belizean economy would feel the blow. Fortunately, Dean’s punch landed hardest in Mexico, but as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, San Pedranos were not completely spared. […]
As the residents of the north put their lives and property back together over the next few weeks, the danger for the rest of us is that Hurricane Dean may teach us the wrong lesson. That, according to Ramon Frutos, could be a fatal mistake. Ramon Frutos, Acting Chief Met. Officer “The story as we […]
