A fifty-four-year-old man died in a motorcycle accident on Sunday night. Police say John Triminio of Orange Walk was driving his cycle between miles seventy-one and seventy-two on the Philip Goldson Highway when he lost control, crashed and died near San Roman village. Police say Triminio was driving on his cycle alone and was socializing […]
A twenty-two-year-old mother of two lost her life this morning, following last evening’s traffic accident in Ladyville. Marcia Lopez was waiting on a bus to head home to her family in San Pablo Village, Orange Walk when she was caught in a collision between three vehicles. A dump truck rear-ended a jeep SUV before crashing […]
There was an accident on the Philip Goldson Highway in Ladyville just in front of North Gas Station near the junction to the international airport. The amateur video footage we have obtained from onlookers immediately after the scene shows a woman dressed in red on the ground near the rear wheel of a dump truck. […]
A fatal road traffic accident claimed the life of a man who was ran over on the Southern Highway in the early hours of Sunday morning. Alvin Abad Paz was reportedly sitting on the edge of the road just outside of San Juan Village when a motorist knocked him down. Bad enough that Paz would […]
Primary school teacher Marilena Mortis was knocked down and killed on Monday morning, as she attempted to cross the busy Phillip Goldson Highway near DK Supermarket. The mother of two had just left her mother’s house on Dolphin Drive in Buttonwood Bay and had hopped over a barrier to get across the other side of […]
Sixty-one-year-old Carlos Galvan, a resident of Xaibe Village, Corozal District, lost his life in the wee early hours of Monday morning during a hit and run incident. The accident happened not too far from San Joaquin Village where the farmer was fatally ran over by an unknown vehicle. In the wake of the mishap, a […]
There are still no charges for the driver of the vehicle which knocked down and killed twenty-three-year-old Marilena Mortis. Mortis had just visited with her mother on Dolphin Drive in the Buttonwood Bay area of the city and was crossing the Philip Goldson Highway near DK’s Supermarket when she was struck by a vehicle. The […]
A twenty-three-year-old teacher perished this morning in a horrible traffic accident near a well-known supermarket at the entrance of Belize City. The mother of two, Marilena Mortis left her mother’s house on Dolphin Drive, in the Buttonwood Bay area, and proceeded to the highway. Because there are no pedestrian crossings in the area, Mortis avoided […]
A Scotland Halfmoon villager lost his life in a fatal RTA on the Burrell Boom Road early this morning. Twenty-seven-year-old Kristian Tillett was driving towards the village when he lost control of his Mitsubishi SUV, which flipped several times before coming to a stop. Tillett was flung from the vehicle to his death, while his […]
There were three fatal accidents within six hours across the country. The first occurred just after twelve a.m. today in the San Joaquin Village on the Philip Goldson Highway. In this RTA, the driver did not stop to render assistance. The identity of the male victim remains unknown at this time and Assistant Commissioner of […]
A father of a two-year-old girl lost his life in a freak accident while at work in Corozal. Thirty-two-year-old Jose Gomez was a sanitation worker for the Corozal Town Council for seven years; on Tuesday, he was returning to the town from the dumpsite when he accidentally fell from the waste management truck. Gomez suffered […]
Gregory Mosser has been charged in connection with the double traffic fatality earlier this week in Spanish Lookout. Manuel Ramos was travelling with his twenty-six-year-old son, Jaime Ramos Garcia, on a motorcycle when they collided into a pickup truck driven by Mosser, a forty-one-year-old American national. While providing official details on what transpired, Assistant Commissioner […]
A father and son lost their lives in a double fatality in Spanish Lookout. Manuel Ramos and his son, Jaime, were on motorcycle heading home to their families when they crashed into a pickup truck driven by American national Gregory Mosser. It happened at the end of the work day before six o’clock on Monday […]
An emergency medical technician is dead following an accident between miles ten and eleven on the Southern Highway sometime early this morning. Police say Khalil Reyes was along with his co-worker socializing in a village prior to the accident. The surviving occupant of the ambulance told police that he was asleep and it was only […]
There was a near fatal traffic accident on the George Price Highway in Cotton Tree Village, Cayo District. Ezekial Ortega was travelling on a motorcycle with his eighteen-year-old step-daughter, Lillian Sanabria. He had just picked her up from the University of Belize and was travelling to the village when a vehicle hit them from behind. […]
Since Monday’s routine press briefing with the police, there has not been much coming out of the department in terms of crimes across the country. There were, however, several fatalities as it relates to road traffic accidents in the past twenty-four hours. The most recent was the death of a Chinese national who reportedly alighted […]
Meanwhile Belmopan resident, Andrew Mitchell, has been charged for causing the death of Solomon Ramirez. The fifty-four-year-old was rear-ended by Mitchell on Sunday night between miles twenty-seven and twenty-eight on the George Price Highway, as he headed towards Belmopan on his motorcycle. Ramirez passed away at the K.H.M.H. on Wednesday. Today, police formally arrested and […]
Fifty-four-year-old Solomon Ramirez has succumbed to road traffic accident injuries three days after he was knocked off his motorcycle. Ramirez was in a coma and on life support since Sunday night until he died earlier this morning. He was in the traffic accident on Sunday night when he was driving his motorcycle after seven between […]
A road traffic accident on Sunday night has left one man seriously injured. Police say Solomon Ramirez was driving his motorcycle sometime after seven between miles twenty-seven and twenty-eight on the George Price Highway when a vehicle crashed into him from behind. Hattieville Police responded to the accident. According to police, the area was dark […]
The family of Rosita Armstrong is tonight mourning her death. The sixty-six-year-old Ladyville resident was knocked down and killed at around seven-thirty on Sunday night. The incident happened between miles twelve and thirteen, near the Los Lagos Community, on the Philip Goldson Highway. The person who hit her is Winston Bud who has been served […]
There was another fatality on the highway, this time in the south. A road traffic accident two days before the New Year claimed the life of forty-seven-year-old Cliff Russell Usher. Usher, a Belize City resident, was driving a grey Grand Cherokee on the Southern Highway when something went wrong, causing him to lose control of […]
In a third accident, though not fatal, a police officer crashed on his motorcycle in Camalote Village over the weekend. The officer was driving his cycle around six-thirty that evening when he slammed into an oncoming vehicle in the village. Police say that the officer was overtaking another vehicle when it collided into a pickup […]
Twenty-five-year-old Police Constable Keenon Bennett is tonight at the K.H.M.H. recuperating after he was knocked down on Wednesday night. Bennett, a member of the Special Patrol Unit, was on duty, patrolling Saint Martin’s Area on a motorcycle. When PC Bennett was at the corner of Mahogany and Santa Barbara Streets, he was hit from the […]
Commander of Eastern Division South Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett would normally appear on the news for the community policing work he continues to do, but tonight the senior police officer is in the hot seat, facing tremendous scrutiny. Gillett was involved in a road traffic accident over the weekend. The incident occurred in the wee […]
Today police gave the official report on the accident that claimed the life of one of their own, twenty-seven-year-old Police Constable Kenyon Pandy. Pandy is the first officer to perish this week. The accident happened just after two-thirty on Tuesday afternoon near the dump in Toledo. Police say WPC Chenyque Zuniga suffered a dislocated shoulder, […]
