Police Constable Kenyon Pandy is dead following a fatal traffic accident in southern Belize. Just after three-thirty on Tuesday evening, Pandy was driving a vehicle when he lost control at the junction of the Southern Highway and San Antonio Road. The vehicle flipped several times, killing the twenty-seven-year-old on the spot. Pandy suffered massive head […]
Earlier this month, the Global Status Report on Road Safety for 2018 was released. The report shows that the burden is disproportionately borne by pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, particularly those living in developing countries. It suggests that the price paid for mobility is too high, especially because proven measures exist. These include strategies to address speed […]
A police officer lost his life in a road traffic accident in Punta Gorda late this evening. Sometime between four and five o’clock, Police Constable Kenyon Pandy and WPC Zuniga were travelling in a vehicle when they met in an accident near the dump just outside of Punta Gorda. Pandy succumbed to his injuries, while […]
A two-year-old-boy was gravely injured and is hospitalized tonight at the Karl Huesner Memorial Hospital. Tevin Cacho sustained severe injuries to the head after he was crushed by a truck on Iguana Street Extension. The accident happened almost at the blink of an eye. Tevin was running across the street to his mother who was […]
Two persons lost their lives in traffic mishaps. On Friday morning, a Belize City businessman driving from Roaring Creek to Belize City knocked down and killed a person who was running across the highway in the Saint Mathew’s Village. Ian Rhaburn reported that he could not avoid hitting the victim, who has since been identified […]
Meanwhile, in Louisville a man perished four days after he was involved in a traffic accident in that northern village. Sometime last week, John Thomas was one of two victims in a collision at the junction in the village. Eyewitness reports are that the driver of the offending vehicle was intoxicated and that could have […]
Two men lost their lives over the weekend as a result of a road traffic accident. They are twenty-nine-year-old Jose Bacab of San Pablo Village and thirty-six-year-old Samuel Gonzalez of San Juan Village. The duo was on a motorcycle on Saturday night, travelling from San Victor Village towards San Narciso Village. Coming from the opposite […]
A Transparent B.P.O. bus burst into flames this morning. The incident happened between miles eight and nine on the Philip Goldson Highway at around six-fifty-five. Ladyville police and firefighters responded, but while the inferno was extinguished, the bus was totally destroyed. Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino shared more. Insp. Wilfredo Ferrufino, C.I.B., Belize City “The fire […]
Five persons are at the Western Regional Hospital receiving treatment after they were allegedly run over by an enraged common-law-husband. Thirty-two-year-old Darrell Alexander Usher was slapped with a number of charges. Police in Belmopan have charged him with five counts each of attempted murder, use deadly means of harm, aggravated assault and two counts each […]
Around five o’clock on Wednesday evening, there was a fatal road traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway near to Yim Sam Hotel in Belmopan. Thirty-two-year-old Guatemalan national Edwin Valdes of Camalote Village was knocked down off his bicycle by a Dodge Ram pickup truck on Wednesday evening. Twenty-year-old Joseph Penner was behind the wheel of […]
Two persons also lost their lives in separate traffic accidents over the extended weekend. On Friday night, around seven o’clock, between miles ninety-one and ninety-two on the Southern Highway, a businessman of Big Falls was driving his truck when he crashed into a motorcycle driven by B.D.F soldier, Ruben Orlando Sho. Sho received massive head […]
Another motorcyclist lost his life on Saturday shortly before six p.m. around mile ten and a half on the Stann Creek Valley Road. The victim has been identified as thirty-three-year-old Pedro Shol of the Valley Community, along the Hummingbird Highway. Shol was reportedly driving his motorcycle when he reportedly lost control and collided into a […]
An American national is lucky to be alive tonight. Jack Turner was saved by police and rescue teams after rushing waters swept him off the Buena Vista Road in Spanish Lookout. The incident happened around six-thirty on Monday evening and since then, there have been numerous reports circulating that as many as three persons were […]
Thirty-five-year-old Carol Orellana was knocked down in Camalote Village and up to news time, she remains hospitalized recovering at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan. Earlier today at its weekly press brief, police said they have no information on who knocked down the Camalote resident. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Roaring […]
The lifeless body of fifty-seven-year-old Francisco Sis, a farmer of San Marcus Village, was observed in the middle of the Southern Highway on Monday night. He had been fatally struck by a pickup truck driven by forty-seven-year-old Gregorio Choc. According to the self-employed resident of San Felipe Village, he was driving the Ford Ranger in […]
Well-known Belize City cabbie, Arthur Requeña, will be laid to rest on Friday. The taxi driver was knocked down and killed on Monday morning while attempting to cross the Philip Goldson Highway near mile two. He was fatally struck by a vehicle registered to the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, which was driven at the time […]
A man was knocked down and killed on Monday evening in the Toledo District. Police say Francisco Sis, a resident of San Marcos Village, was crossing the southern highway between miles eighty-seven and eighty-eight sometime after six when he was hit by a pickup truck. The driver of the vehicle, Gregorio Choc of San Felipe […]
There was a fatal road traffic accident in the city today. Fifty-six-year-old taxi operator, Arthur Requeña was knocked down on the Philip Goldson Highway in front of the Easy Inn Hotel. An eyewitness tells News Five that Requeña parked on the opposite side of the highway and was walking across the road when he was […]
Samuel August Senior, the deranged man who killed his son and mother-in-law, escaped from the K.H.M.H. this morning where he was under police guard. The thirty-five-year-old was hospitalized after Wednesday’s horrific incident on Fabers Road where he rammed a backhoe into three houses. After fleeing the hospital around seven o’clock, he attacked a mother of […]
A six-year-old girl is seriously injured and remains in a critical condition at the Northern Regional Hospital after being knocked down in Corozal Town. Destiny Williams and her mother Devonie Palacio were crossing Seventh Avenue when they were hit by a vehicle driven by a woman identified as Abby Casanova. The mother and her daughter […]
One person is detained pending further investigation into a fatal hit and run incident in the south. Alta Vista villager, forty-four-year-old David Cunil was discovered dead on the Southern Highway sometime after nine o’clock on Saturday night in the village. Police investigation has so far revealed that Cunil was drinking with friends that day and […]
Four persons are lucky to be alive tonight after they were involved in a head-on collision this morning. It happened at around seven o’clock between miles two and three of the Stann Creek Valley Road. Forty-two-year-old Karima Martinez was driving a white Ford Escape with her seventeen-year-old daughter in the passenger seat, heading towards Dangriga. […]
There was loss of life due to an accident over the extended weekend. A fifty-three-year-old Belize City resident died after the Ford Ranger pickup truck he was driving plunged into the Rio Hondo River. On Saturday night, at around eleven-thirty, security guard Francisco Paquiul was driving from Orange Walk town to San Antonio Village when […]
The Paz family in San Pedro Town has received confirmation of the death of forty-nine-year-old Jose Milo Paz. The veteran pilot and aviation pioneer died in a plane wreck in the mountains in Panama sometime on October seventh. While the news of his death had been widely reported, the Paz family was hopeful until today. […]
Believed to be missing and feared dead, well-known pilot forty-nine-year-old Jose Milo Paz has not been seen or heard from since Sunday. His family in San Pedro Town has been bombarded with messages of condolences and sympathies. On Tuesday night, reports surfaced that Paz died in a plane crash on Sunday evening somewhere in the […]
