Maybe people in Corozal expected too much. Maybe the people at NEMO planned too little. Maybe the media is focussing too closely on the suffering and not enough on the recovery. Those issues will no doubt be debated in the weeks and months to come but for now we can safely report that there is […]
Relief efforts in the north received a financial boost today from the Social Security Board. This morning the organisation donated ninety thousand dollars to NEMO and thirty-five thousand to the Belize Red Cross. The money, according to S.S.B. Deputy Chairperson, Elena Smith, came from funds set aside for disaster relief. Elena Smith, Deputy Chair, SSB […]
And while ninety thousand dollars can help a lot of people, according to Minister Responsible for NEMO, Godfrey Smith, a tally of the damage comes in at around fifty million dollars. This morning he told News Five about the work to be undertaken and how it will be financed. Godfrey Smith, Minister Responsible for NEMO […]
Official estimates of the damage caused by Hurricane Dean are at best preliminary, put together in a process better suited to requesting foreign aid than as a blueprint for rebuilding. With regard to agricultural losses the experience is at once both simple and complex. Simple because in the case of papayas there is barely a […]
Water and electricity were not the only utilities affected by Hurricane Dean. While the larger B.T.L. network performed flawlessly in the critical hours before the storm’s landfall, by midmorning on Monday, SMART’s approximately thirty-five thousand customers began to experience difficulty making calls. According to Managing Director Jaime Briceno, the reason was congestion due to the […]
In a bit of sports news we are informed that Belize’s female softballers finished a disappointing fourth out of five in the Central American Club Championships held over the weekend in Esteli Nicaragua. The “Hot Mamas” team from Unitedville got off to a rocky start, losing two – zip to Nicaragua on Friday but bounced […]
Details are sketchy but we can confirm a murder that has been reported in the nation’s capital. The body of twenty-three year old Honduran Zilma Copo was found by neighbors at her home on St. Matthew Street around four-thirty Wednesday afternoon. She had been stabbed numerous times in the chest. Present at the time were […]
While most media coverage on Hurricane Dean has focused on Corozal Town, much of the storm’s damage was inflicted on half a dozen villages surrounding the district capital News Five’s Marion Ali is just back from the area with the following report. Tours through three villages in the Corozal District gave us an idea that […]
