Comatose accident victim moved to Guatemala

In an update to some recent stories, we are informed that twenty-two year old Albert Gomez, shot in his mouth by assailants at his Stake Bank fishing camp, is showing some signs of improvement. Hospital sources tell us that Gomez has been taken off the ventilator machine and is able to slowly move the left side of his body. He is still, however, unable to speak. As the sole witness to the brutal murder of his parents on Sunday night, Gomez remains under police guard at the K.H.M.H.

And in an update on a story we ran on June twenty-fourth, forty-four year old Martha Reimer tonight remains in a coma at a hospital in Guatemala City. On Tuesday, Reimer was transferred from Universal Health Services in Belize City to Centro Medico after her family decided to get a second opinion on her condition. Reimer suffered serious head injuries after the Dodge Caravan her son was driving crashed into a Linea Dorada bus headed for Guatemala. The accident, which occurred at mile twenty-one on the Western Highway, claimed the lives of Reimer’s son, seventeen-year-old Dwayne Reimer and her parents Gerhard and Dora Thiessen. The police believe it was the bus driver’s fault and charged Francisco Mayen with three counts of manslaughter by negligence, three counts of causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care and attention and failure to keep on the right hand side of the road. Today, Mayen remains on remand at Hattieville prison awaiting his day in court.