Tropical Storm Nana cometh and when she arrives, she will be a hurricane; at least that is the prediction coming from the National Hurricane Center. The storm is expected to become a category one hurricane and is predicted to make landfall somewhere along the coast of Belize. While there has been widespread talk of it […]
While Belize is in the midst of a pandemic, it is now preparing to brace for a category one hurricane. Tonight the National Met Service is advising the country to take all necessary precautions and activate your storm plans. Deputy Chief Meteorologist Ronald Gordon says that while it is important that you don’t panic, you […]
So you heard from the National Met Service and what you can expect. And now, we turn to the National Emergency Management Organization. Late this evening, we spoke with Shelton Defour, the National Coordinator of NEMO. Defour says that earlier this evening, NEMO issued a tropical storm warning for Belize City and the cayes, and […]
As you heard just now, NEMO’s National Coordinator pointed out the challenges of responding to a hurricane during the time of a pandemic. Shelton Defour says that all personnel are in place and ready to respond, but what about infrastructure? Well, firstly, shelters are expected to open when there is a hurricane warning; and once […]
Roadwords are prioritized at this time. Along the George Price Highway near mile thirty-eight and a half, work is underway, as a team from the Ministry of Works led by Chief Engineer Lennox Bradley is widening access along that portion of the thoroughfare. Viewers would recall that back on June eighteenth; torrential rains washed away […]
Turning to crime….A man was callously murdered on Monday night inside his home in the Trenchtown area of San Ignacio. Because of the curfew hours, Joshua Villas was at home with his family when he was executed in front of his common-law-wife and stepchildren. His wife says Joshua was called out and when he opened […]
There is another murder, it happened this afternoon on Royal Palm Street in the Louisiana Area of Orange Walk Town. The victim has been identified as twenty-two-year-old Joaquin Perez Junior. Police in Orange Walk say that before one o’clock, Perez armed with a machete reportedly set chase after a male person who was riding a […]
There are forty-three new COVID-19 cases out of three hundred and seventeen samples processed. In the daily infographic provided by the Ministry of Health, it shows that the forty-three cases were spread out over four districts; five cases in Cayo; six in Belize; ten in Corozal and the largest batch is in Orange Walk where […]
The state of emergency has been lifted for Ambergris Caye; it was to expire this Friday, but the weeks of lockdown has severely impacted life in San Pedro where everything came to a standstill. The number of COVID-19 cases ballooned in July, but those numbers have been brought under control. So within hours of the […]
From the S.O.E. to an impending hurricane…There is a sense of urgency in San Pedro in light of the fast-approaching storm. The San Pedro Town Council is asking residents to start putting their family emergency plan into action and to be prepared to seek safe shelter. It is expected that by Thursday, Nana will strengthen […]
Even as San Pedro prepares for a storm, a robbery took place this afternoon. A brazen thief hit the MoneyGram office on the island. Reports are that the cashier was held up at gunpoint and an undisclosed amount of money stolen. Resident reportedly saw the perp running towards the west area of downtown. Police are […]
In Belize City, concerns are being raised tonight about the wellbeing of the staff at the Treasury Department where a second case of COVID-19 has been confirmed. News Five understands that last Thursday a female employee complained of feeling ill after exhibiting symptoms that were consistent with coronavirus. She reportedly excused herself from work that […]
And on Queen Street in Belize City, the Vital Statistics Unit today was sanitized. The Attorney General’s Ministry informed this morning that the Unit is temporarily closed and services have been suspended for the sanitization of the office as we saw today. Two men donning P.P.E.s, facemasks, gloves, and equipped with disinfecting solutions entered the […]
A family member of a City Council Traffic Department employee died over the past weekend due to COVID-19. Tonight the virus threatens City Hall again as another family member of an employee has tested positive. Consequently, the Belize City Council’s Works Department of the George Price Highway was sanitized today. The council contracted the services […]
The COVID pandemic has thrown things upside down and as Belize nears its thirty-ninth birthday, the festive national celebrations are taking new form, but the sense of pride and nationalism remain the same. This morning, a flag raising ceremony took place at the flag monument in Belize City. Mayor Bernard Wagner symbolically hoisted the national […]
In Orange Walk today both major political parties were in court battling over newly registered voters and transferees. The People’s United Party for both the East and Central constituencies was challenging several applications of transfers and new registrations. The P.U.P. says that these U.D.P. supporters do not reside at the address given to the Elections […]
The Belize Zoo has over two hundred resident animals – and they each require special care and that includes a balanced diet. Some of the animals are big meat eaters, while others require a heavy plant-based diet – whatever it is that they eat – to feed all two hundred is a costly undertaking for […]
A number of police officers on San Pedro were infected with the coronavirus in the line of duty and had to be placed on quarantine when the virus hit the island hard. The frontline workers have generally recovered and are back on duty. Today, the cops working in San Pedro and Caye Caulker received a […]
