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Belize City has been racked by Hurricane Lisa. Homes and businesses have been destroyed by the sheer force of winds that cut swaths through buildings big and small. Twenty-four hours ago, the Old Capital was battered by heavy rains and violent winds, as the severe weather system made landfall south of this municipality. Residents hunkered […]
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Residents of south side Belize City are among the most affected by Hurricane Lisa. Today, residents from Freetown, Lake Independence, and Port Loyola were out picking up the pieces in an attempt to return to some sense of normalcy. Roofs and zincs were tossed in all directions. Trees and branches littered roadways. Power lines prevented […]
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Stores and offices, as well as other business places, were also destroyed by the tempest. We drove around Belize City this morning and observed proprietors of various establishments cleaning up and piecing together what is left of their businesses. B.T.L. Park, a popular location where families recreate on weekends, is in a state of ruin. […]
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According to the National Meteorological Service, Hurricane Lisa made landfall at three-twenty p.m. on Wednesday, ten miles south of Belize City. Fortunately, no lives were lost as a result of the storm. The greatest impacts were residential properties, while localized flooding occurred along the coast of Belize City and Ladyville. It is estimated that two […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño and his Cabinet have not yet ascertained the value of damages caused by Hurricane Lisa. At the moment, the Government of Belize is working through NEMO and area representatives in the affected communities to offer relief to residents. As of today, monies are being deposited into constituency development funds for both […]
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As we said earlier, the Government of Belize has declared a curfew for the Belize District, with the exception of San Pedro and Caye Caulker. Elsewhere in his late evening press conference, the Prime Minister further explained the need for the institution of a curfew. Here is what he told reporters. “We have just […]
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The all-clear has been given, but Hurricane Lisa pummeled Belize City and surrounding communities on Wednesday evening before drifting inland. It left in its wake significant damage to properties. Lisa formed in the eastern Caribbean Sea as an area of disturbance last week and took a westerly track. It was initially expected to make landfall […]
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In Ladyville, only one of three designated shelters was opened to residents who left their homes to weather the storm at the Ladyville Community Center. At this time, the numbers have reduced from the seventy-five persons who sought refuge, as some families returned home to clean up and assess damages. There are others that have […]
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Hurricane shelters remained open across Belize City today for residence whose homes have been completely destroyed. Prime Minister Briceño confirmed earlier that two hundred and seventy-eight persons are in shelters across the country. As of midday, thirty- two individuals from the Gungulung community remained in shelter at Saint Luke Methodist Primary School on Mahogany Street. […]
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The quantum that will have to be spent to assist hurricane victims to recover their losses will no doubt be in the tens of millions of dollars. Almost every street in Belize City had at least one property that suffered some damage of loss due to the storm. And in the Belama Phase Four area, […]
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The devastation is not limited to Belize City; it also extends through the central corridor of the country. Rural Belize District also got the brunt of the storm, in terms of winds. In some areas, water levels rose dangerously high into homes. In the Vista del Mar community in Ladyville, water rose about six feet […]
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Classes across the country are expected to resume on Monday. Many of those classrooms are used as hurricane shelters. Minister of Education Francis Fonseca has requested that NEMO makes an effort to relocate those persons and provide alternate shelter for them by Monday. He had this to say late this evening. Francis Fonseca, Minister […]
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The hot topic among developing countries is the entire issue of climate change and the green gas emissions that bigger countries contribute to the ozone layer. At last year’s Climate Change conference in Scotland, the concern among small countries that do not create much pollution is that we become the most vulnerable by the effects […]
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Lisa dumped at least seven inches of rainfall over Belize City and storm surges affected communities along the Philip Goldson highway and Vista del Mar. According to Chief Met Officer Ronald Gordon, there was evidence that the flood brought debris from the sea all the way onto the highway. There were many homes in the […]
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Today, News Five caught up with Belize Rural Central Area Representative Dolores Balderamos-Garcia as she canvassed her constituency looking at the damage on the ground. She contends that her division was just as severely impacted as Belize City, particularly the Vista del Mar community and Lord’s Bank Village. The Minister of Human Development told News […]
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Now that the hurricane has passed, and water supply has been partially restored, the question people are asking is when the power supply will be restored in their area. NEMO Coordinator, retired Colonel Shelton Defour explained that is up to the electricity provider. But while B.E.L works to restore the country to the national grid […]
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Portions of the country tonight remain without electricity and it is estimated that power will be restored fully until Sunday. Personnel from Belize Electricity Limited have been out from early working on the restoration of current, as there are many power lines stretched across streets, lampposts snapped in two or bent over as a result […]
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There is a six-step process that is undertaken by the utility company to see that power producers are restored, transmission lines repaired and substations brought back online for power to reach local distribution lines. Thereafter, power is restored to essential services and facilities, followed by large service areas or neighbourhoods and then individual homes. But […]
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