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Nov 17, 09 |
Gas leak and explosion simulation tests emergency personnel
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Commuters on Albert Street this morning were shaken up by a vehicle explosion in front of Wholesale Plus. It involved a Belize Western Energy Limited butane truck that experienced a massive gas leak in the heavily trafficked and commercial area. One ...[Read More] |
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Nov 16, 09 |
Fire leaves single mothers and children homeless
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Two Belize City families headed by single mothers lost everything in a midday fire today. The six persons have, for the time being, moved in with relatives and friends after the blaze gutted their home located on Neal Penn Road. The fire started in a...[Read More] |
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Nov 09, 09 |
Tropical Storm Ida spares Belize and moves north
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Tropical Storm Ida did not have affect Belize that Tropical Depression number sixteen had last year, but it did claim forty lives in neighbouring El Salvador after it dumped heavy rains over that country for three days. The deaths happened in at lea...[Read More] |
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Nov 06, 09 |
Tropical Depression Ida inches closer to Belize
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The hurricane season is winding down but this weekend, in southern Belize residents are bracing for heavy rains and flooding from Tropical Storm Ida that hit Nicaragua and Honduras and then downgraded to a depression. The speed of the depression has ...[Read More] |
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Nov 06, 09 |
NEMO preparing for potential floods
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As we said earlier, the tropical depression does not pose much threat of making direct landfall over Belize. In fact, the projected path of the weather system has it taking a northerly then north-westerly track. But the folks at the National Emerge...[Read More] |
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Nov 05, 09 |
Tropical Storm Ida on the horizon
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It’s the first storm to head this way for the 2009 Hurricane Season and the forecast is that Ida will bring a lot rain in the next few days. Ida formed in the southwest of the Caribbean on Wednesday afternoon and by night it was the topic of convers...[Read More] |
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Nov 03, 09 |
Georgeville fire injures minors
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On Monday’s newscast we reported of a traffic accident involving a sixteen year old who was hit and ended between the rear tires of a heavy duty ten wheeler truck in Georgeville. Tonight, two minors—a fourteen year old and five month old baby—are hos...[Read More] |
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Oct 26, 09 |
Fire guts home and leaves family of four homeless
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And in the city, a fire sometime around ten on Sunday night destroyed the home of a family of four. Thirty-three year old Marcelteno Montejo and his two year old son were inside their home located on Periwinkle Street in the Lake I Area when an overl...[Read More] |
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Sep 28, 09 |
Queen Street business damaged in fire
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A fire on Queen Street proved to be a double whammy for businessman, Roberto Chee and his family, who experienced a second blaze at their Queen Street residence and store. And while today’s loss in no way matched the previous inferno which totaled t...[Read More] |
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Sep 25, 09 |
Flooding in Orange Walk Villages
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It has been more than a year since the deadly floods caused by Tropical Storm Arthur and Tropical Depression Sixteen struck the country. Thirteen lives were lost and millions of dollars worth of damages were inflicted on personal and public property....[Read More] |
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