Belize braced for Hurricane Richard
Hurricane Richard slammed into Belize’s Caribbean coast just south of its largest city, as authorities evacuated tourists from outlying islands and an estimated 10,000 people took refuge at shelters in the tiny Central American nation.
The US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said Richard’s top winds were 90mph - making it a Category One hurricane – when it made landfall about 20 miles south-south-west of Belize City, whose neighbourhoods are full of wooden, tin-roof homes that are very vulnerable to winds.
