Earlier today, our News Five team spoke to NEMO Coordinator Clare Moody at NEMO’s Headquarters in Belmopan. Although the storm has shifted its trajectory north, NEMO continues in a state of preparedness. Moody outlines what has been put in place to weather Hurricane Earl. Clare Moody, NEMO Coordinator “We prepare from season to season. […]
Tropical Storm Earl was upgraded to a category one hurricane this afternoon at three o’clock having reached maximum winds at seventy-five miles per hour. It is forecasted that the first hurricane to head for Belize in this season, will strengthen to eighty miles per hour and landfall is expected later tonight in the area of […]
The latest NEMO advisory was received at six o’clock. It states the following. Hurricane Earl is centered near Latitude seventeen point one north Longitude, eighty six point zero, west or about one hundred and three miles east-southeast of Half Moon Caye, one hundred and forty-one miles east-southeast of San Pedro Ambergris Caye, one hundred and […]
One of the biggest challenges being experienced at this hour is the movement of people to safe ground. NEMO states that there is reluctance by persons to evacuate their homes. In the areas where the hurricane is expected to hit, the residents are refusing to move to shelters. Clare Moody, NEMO Coordinator “One of […]
In Belize City, residents stocked up on food and other necessities to tidy them over the hurricane. Gas stations, supermarkets and hardware stores were abuzz was activity in preparation for Hurricane Earl. Some of those that were not at the stores transferred to shelters. CEMO Coordinator, Phillip Willoughby is in the thick of things. So […]
On Tuesday, we showed you the Krooman Lagoon area of Belize City where residents were resisting pleas to move to escape the projected flooding. Last October, the area was most affected after heavy rains; up to three hundred families were unable to leave the area after the heavy rains; the coastguard and CEMO had to […]
As you’re watching this it is likely that Hurricane Earl is just about ready to make landfall and we’re already experiencing heavy winds and torrential rains. As you’re heard by now that’s expected to continue into Thursday morning as the storm moves inland. It is our hope that Belizeans, especially those in the very flood […]
One of the primary reasons for residents in that area moving without hesitation into the shelter is bitter experience. The last time heavy rains fell, in late 2015, many residents lost all their possessions when floodwaters inundated the Southside. News Five spoke to two women making use of the facility who explained that they didn’t […]
Thirty-two year old welder, John Williams, a resident of Ladyville, was murdered inside his house in the Japan area on Tuesday night. The gunman knocked at his door and when Williams opened, he was met by a barrage of bullets. When police arrived at his house, Williams was dead. The suspect is Egbert Baldwin aka […]
Back in early July, the Belmopan police located the weapon used to murder Roaring Creek resident Maleek Norris. It was a homemade gun, simply two pieces of metal pipe and a shotgun shell. Today, in the wake of the murder of John Williams in Ladyville, police officers attached to the Rural Eastern Division also discovered […]
The courts closed today in the city as Hurricane Earl approached Belize. Late on Tuesday, twenty-three year old Lord’s Bank resident, Japheth Steadman Gordon, was placed on remand after his arraignment in the Magistrate’s Court for the offenses of aggravated burglary and indecent assault upon a twenty-five year old woman. Allegations are that on June […]
A Salvadoran national and two Hondurans were also taken to court on Tuesday for failure to present their documents to Immigration. The trio was detained in the Belama area of Belize City and handed over to the Belize City Immigration Department. But the charges were withdrawn after the Immigration Prosecutor Luis Romero conceded that he […]
A News Five team is in Burrell Boom tonight where the eye of the storm is expected to pass and residents are expected to experience winds of about seventy-five miles per hour. So far, a number of residents are hesitant in leaving their homes. The chairperson of the village, Merlene Baptist-Pandy is making a desperate […]
We headed over to the shelters in Burrell Boom where we spoke to a family of seven who left their home in the nearby Fresh Pond community seeking safety. Their arrival at the shelter was just prior to the upgrading of the storm to a hurricane. Fourteen year old Angie Cowo explains. Angie Cowo, […]
Fire broke early this morning in Belize City. A plume of smoke enveloped the area of Jones Street in the Lake Independence area as fire erupted at a wooden house. An estranged couple, occupants of the house, was not at home and Fire Department is not ruling out arson in their investigations. It is also […]
Earlier today, we also checked in to find out what is happening in Belize Rural where the communities are spread out in the wide expanse. Police plan to keep an eye on the more than thirty villages in the Belize Rural District. As residents leave their homes for higher ground and shelter, it leaves the […]
Before we close tonight, NEMO has issued information on shelters that are now open. In San Pedro: New Horizon Seventh Day Adventist School, San Pedro High School and San Pedro RC Primary. In Belmopan: Garden City Primary School, Belmopan Comprehensive High School and the University of Belize. In Belize City: Saint John’s Vianney, Unity Presbyterian […]
In the final hours before Hurricane Earl makes landfall on Belize, here are three things to note according to in-house expert Carlos Fuller from the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center. Carlos Fuller, CCCCC “I think we recognize three significant changes that have occurred between this morning and six this evening, but especially that occurred […]
The weather channel has a storm tracker stationed in Belize providing regular updates on Hurricane Earl as it develops and travels through Belize. Josh Morgerman is currently on San Pedro. The clip is the last weather channel update as well as a report from the storm tracker since he landed in Belize. {Highlights from […]
