Tonight, Eta is churning toward the Caribbean, but it is leaving behind a rising death toll in Guatemala and Honduras. The storm, which is one of the worst to affect the region, is dumping torrential rains across Belize, causing extensive damages to crops and property – the extent of which will be discussed by Prime […]
….from the twin towns to Roaring Creek, where drenching rains, the outer bands of ETA, caused the river to spill over. The overflow covered the old low-lying bridge and reached at the entrance of the new elevated bridge that connects western Belize. The Police Station was under water and so were some houses; residents had […]
A few miles away, a portion of the road at thirty-eight and a half on the George Price Highway has proven to be problematic during this rainy season. A large hole appeared at a temporary crossing at the area where the rains washed out in June of this year. That hole caused traffic to come […]
Here in the city, the situation in the south side is feeling the brunt of the torrential rains. The Kroonman Lagoon is flooding and posing a threat to residents. This morning Councilor Oscar Arnold was in the area assisting residents with the building of a reliable and permanent structure. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. […]
News Five received reports just before noon today that an international flight had to be rerouted after it was deemed unsafe to land at the Philip Goldson International Airport. It was confirmed by airport authorities that all airlines were informed that the international airport would be closed for the remainder of the day. This, we […]
This afternoon, the Office of the Prime Minister confirmed that PCR results indicate that PM Dean Barrow tested negative for the coronavirus; he was swabbed on Thursday and the results were released today. The PM’s Chief of Security, Jeff Gabriel tested positive on Thursday and he had been in contact with Barrow since the start […]
Everywhere, the floods are causing damage to infrastructure and property, though fortunately, there has been no loss of life. The western and southern parts of the country are hard hit and rural Belize residents are bracing for what is to come with the overflow of the Belize River and the Crooked Tree Lagoon. News Five’s […]
The unusual amount of rains has caused shelters to open in affected areas. Some folks from the city, as well as rural communities in the Belize District, headed early to the shelters to stay dry and safe. A resident from the Jerusalem area says she made her way across the London bridges as soon as […]
As the rains came down, politics was at play. U.D.P. standard bearer for Freetown, Orson “OJ” Elrington posted on his Facebook page that since three this morning, he as well as the Director of the National Sports Council, Ian Jones and others were out assessing the situation in flood prone areas of Freetown. While nobody […]
News Five journeyed to Calla Creek Village in the west today where Aurelio Sho responded to reports of a family in distress. The rising Mopan River snakes around Calla Creek causing many residences to flood. Some thirty-five families have been affected and had to move to higher ground. One family had to climb to their […]
At the top of the newscast you saw how the George Price Highway was closed off to vehicular traffic because a hole formed on the middle of the road. Well – that area is known to experience high waters as a result of heavy rains – and just below that near the Beaver Dam Bridge, […]
The death toll for COVID-19 in Belize presently stands at sixty-six persons, as two more patients succumbed to the illness on Thursday. Those fatalities were recorded among two males, one was in his eighties and died at the I.C.U. COVID Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The other was from San Ignacio and was […]
A total of seventy-two additional cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Thursday, following the processing of a batch of almost two hundred and fifty samples that were taken. A majority of those new cases, thirty-six, came from Orange Walk District where the transmission level is high. While there were thirty recoveries, there are presently one […]
Back to the flooding….down south in Sarawee, the North Stann Creek River rose dramatically. NEMO officers out there were monitoring the situation and were expecting the river to rise. Assistant Coordinator for NEMO in Stann Creek, Kevin Flores says that the most affected area is the Belize Site Area where NEMO officers assisted in evacuating […]
In the island town of San Pedro, heavy rains inundated a number of streets in the subdivisions. The images from the island show that residents cannot exit their homes as there are several feet of water in front of their properties. On the lagoon side, several boats sank and despite efforts to retrieve the vessels, […]
And in Caye Caulker, the newly construction police barracks is compromised. When the rains came down, the roof began leaking. Videos show water pouring through the ceiling and atop the door. The barracks was constructed by Gaby’s Construction Company Limited from San Pedro at a cost of three hundred and thirty-six thousand two hundred and […]
Belize has taken a major step to strengthen marine conservation and is among a handful of countries that is putting an end to gillnet fishing in its territorial waters. After years of work by the N.G.O. community, including OCENA, the use of gillnets is now illegal. Late this evening, government announced that it had passed […]
Twelve teachers from Sacred Heart Primary School in Dangriga who were charged by police for attending a restricted social event were let off with a warning. The teachers appeared before the Dangriga Magistrate Court where the charges were dismissed, but not before they were given a warning. As we reported earlier this week, the teachers […]
The rains have not stopped the gun violence. Just before nine on Thursday night, there was a shooting at the corner of Majestic Alley and North Front Street in Belize City. Police say that Majestic Alley resident, forty-five-year-old Lynton Sutherland and others were standing on North Front Street when a white Ford car drove by. […]
The Magistrate’s Court remains closed today after COVID-19 was detected among staff. But at the Supreme Court, a man who is on remand for rape was today granted bail. Justice Antoinette Moore granted twenty-five-year-old Matthew Fuentes bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars in the form of two sureties. The bail conditions are that […]
A CARICOM Election Observation Mission will be in Belize to observe the General Election on Wednesday, November eleventh. Jeannette Sonia Charles of Antigua and Barbuda will head the mission, which will include five other electoral officials from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, and Suriname. While in Belize, the mission is scheduled to meet virtually with […]
As we head into the weekend we will tell about what to expect in weather conditions. The National Hydrological Service has been monitoring the rise in water levels in the Macal and Mopan rivers, as well as the Belize River and other tributaries. Those waterways are becoming swollen and flooding is expected within the next […]
To close our newscast tonight, here is an update about the U.S. elections. Democratic candidate Joe Biden is six electoral votes short of becoming the next President of the United States. At news time this evening, he led Republican candidate, President Donald Trump by fifty electoral votes. While the Associated Press has not called the […]
