Tropical Depression number two which made landfall on Belize on Monday afternoon has resulted in significant rainfall all across the country. But today all eyes were on the flood prone areas of Dangriga and surrounding communities. Because the path of TD2 was south of the country, the coastal and low lying areas that are already […]
Though the projected path was over Monkey River, the sheer width of the cloud cover reached the former capital, Belize City. The City is also experiencing flooding in the aftermath of Tropical Depression Two. The major problem associated with the downpour is the lack of drainage. Overnight, streets that have been recently cemented with proceeds […]
Life for residents of southern Belize, who sought refuge at various shelters during the overnight passage of Tropical Depression Two, resumes normalcy, as the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) reports that most of those people are back at home. At two o’clock this afternoon, TD2 was heading west-north-west away from Belize at approximately ten miles […]
NEMO keeps close contact with the Meteorology Department that is stationed at the Philip Goldson International Airport. An hour after the NEMO advisory, the MET Office indicated that at three p.m., tropical depression number two was located near latitude eighteen point three-eight north and longitude ninety-one point nine west; that is essentially at the Bay […]
And much further north, the remnants of a political storm had expectedly fizzled. There was no need for a forecaster to predict that Minister of State Mark King would be free of charges levied against him earlier this year. In the Corozal Magistrate Court this morning, charges of aggravated assault, threatening words and disorderly conduct […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you have confidence in the health system because the Minister of Health won the village council elections? Yes or No. Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to […]
A young man who had turned his life around was shot and killed on Monday night. Until he was murdered, Delone Vernon was an employee of Youth for the Future. On Monday night, he was at his Sibun Street house with his in-laws when the gunman burst inside and unleashed several gunshots which caught Vernon […]
A Belizean also lost his life to violence in the United States. The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the murder of a Belizean American inside his home on Sunday. Two months after visiting relatives in Belize, thirty-eight year old Gregory Bennett also known as Gregory Scott was killed. Bennett was shot three times in […]
An elderly man was reportedly beaten and sodomized in Armenia Village on the tenth of June, while socializing at a local bar. The man, in his sixties, was said to have been intoxicated and fell asleep on the roadside while on his way home…that was around two a.m. last Monday. But, he never made it […]
A man who has spent the last five years on remand for a 2008 murder will not go back to the Belize Central prison tonight. Twenty-eight year old Lincoln Sabido, a resident of Berry Street was accused of the first murder in 2008 when Norman “Mimi” Reyes, was fatally shot once to the neck. Sabido […]
A Belize City man was convicted in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court after he was found with a nine millimeter pistol loaded with nine rounds of ammunition. This afternoon, in the court room of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, an unrepresented Randy Jones, was found guilty of Kept Firearm and Ammunition without a Gun License. […]
The Orange Walk Town Supreme Court is also in session. Today, Isabel Mendez was convicted by a nine member jury of ten counts of incest. Mendez was tried before Justice Herbert Lord for having sexual intercourse with the victim over a three year period which spanned from May twenty sixth 2006 to April twelfth 2009. The […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is the nation’s only referral hospital, and is currently being bombarded with very negative publicity following the deaths of newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit related to a bacteria outbreak. There are other problems at the hospital including water allegedly covering the floor of the maternity ward. Maureen Staine […]
From hospitals inundated with water to forests under siege…The Chiquibul National Park is Belize’s largest national park; about four hundred and fourteen square miles, which is approximately the size of the Corozal District. Patrolling, monitoring and protecting that area is a monumental task which falls primarily to a non-governmental organization known as the Friends of […]
There are five more months to go before the end of Hurricane Season. And though we have barely begun the first month in the season, Tropical Depression Two won’t be forgotten in a hurry. Across the country, the stories and images have been plenty. Our photographers composed a montage of what they saw on the […]
