Another deadly collision, this time in the Spanish Lookout community, has claimed the lives of one more pair of motorists. It is the second fatal pileup within forty-eight hours, involving persons on motorcycles. Shortly before midday, twenty-year-old Roland Dyck slammed head-on into seventeen-year-old Franz Marten, a welder of Spanish Lookout. The impact of the collision […]
Since the beginning of the week, three persons have lost their lives in separate traffic accidents in southern Belize. On Tuesday morning, sixty-nine-year-old Selvin Bahadur was knocked off his bicycle on San Antonio Road in Punta Gorda by a pickup truck, driven at the time by Corporal Alexander Salam, who is attached to the Belmopan […]
Sixty-eight year old Adolphus Selvin Bahadur was knocked down and killed in Toledo this morning. Sometime around seven-thirty, Bahadur was on a bike on the outskirts of Forest Home, some four miles from Punta Gorda Town, heading to Elridgeville when he was hit from behind by a police truck. The driver, police corporal forty-year-old Alexander […]
A mother of three was killed in a road traffic accident on Sunday afternoon in western Belize. San Ignacio resident, Neidy Cifuentes was driving with a friend and her daughter in a rental SUV when she experienced a tire blow out and lost control of her vehicle at the entrance of Succotz Village. The vehicle […]
The police department is investigating a collision on Sunday night in Bella Vista Village involving a Wingle pickup truck which was assigned to officers in that jurisdiction. The vehicle was rear-ended by a motorist who has since been identified as Asuncion Rush. There were five officers inside the mobile at the time of the accident […]
There was a fatal accident on the Philip Goldson Highway on Wednesday evening which claimed the life of Nurse Leimi Ewan. The northern regional nurse was traveling from Crooked Tree to Orange Walk when she lost control of her vehicle near Rhaburn Ridge; she died on the spot. Two minors were traveling with Ewan, but […]
Shortly after four o’clock this afternoon, there was a deadly traffic accident near Rhaburn Ridge on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Police can only confirm at this point that one person perished in the accident. News Five has learnt that the victim is believed to be a nurse from Orange Walk. We’ll have more details on […]
A freak accident in the Corozal District has resulted in a teacher losing his life on Saturday morning. Thirty-eight-year-old Isaac Nicholi, a Mennonite educator of New Land Community, was killed when a horse and buggy that was transporting him and another individual, overturned in a nearby drain. Nicholi was pinned beneath the cart and was […]
A pedestrian lost his life while walking along the highway near Cattle Landing Village in Toledo District. The fatal road traffic accident happened on Wednesday night as fifty-six-year-old Hector Ramclam was making his way on foot along the stretch of road. He was struck by a motorcycle driven at the time by twenty-nine-year-old Daniel Mejia […]
A hit and run accident has claimed the life of Melito Macario Medina. The fifty-one-year-old resident of Petville, Orange Walk was apparently knocked down and killed sometime between six and seven o’clock as he was walking home on the San Estevan Road on Thursday evening. When police arrived on the scene, Medina was lifeless. The […]
A motorcycle collision this morning on Lakeview Street, Belize City, has resulted in serious injury to Jason Moreira. According to reports, he was riding out onto the nearby carriageway when he came into violent contact with an oncoming vehicle. The impact flung Moreira a distance away, while the vehicle that collided into his motorbike crashed […]
A tour guide and a father of three from the Cayo area perished in a road fatality over the weekend. Carlos Panti, who was well established in the tourism industry, was travelling alone when he lost control of his vehicle at the start of a hectic tour day. In so doing, Panti was violently flung […]
A Sand Hill resident has also lost his life following a mishap along the Old Northern Highway over the weekend. In the predawn hours of Sunday morning, Jermaine Rhaburn was found in a semiconscious state between miles one and two on the Maskall Road. He was seen lying face up in the middle of the […]
Accident or murder? Police say it leans toward the former for now in the case of Rudolph Kelly, a landlord of Mile Eight on the George Price Highway who sustained two cut wounds and crashed while headed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for treatment on Tuesday night. Today Crime Investigation Branch chief Alejandro Cowo […]
There was a fatal accident on Tuesday night at the intersections of Central American Boulevard and Mahogany Street. Sometime before nine o’clock, Belize City police were called out to the roundabout where they saw an extensively damaged Toyota Camry on the traffic circle. Inside the vehicle was fifty-two-year-old Rudolph Kelly, a landlord of Eight Mile […]
A mother of three was knocked off her motorcycle and killed on Friday night as she made her way home from work near Cotton Tree Village. Silvia Zavala was on the George Price Highway when a vehicle slammed into her cycle and fled the scene. Police quickly arrested and charged the driver of Camalote Village. […]
There is also a report of a fatal traffic accident in Silk Grass Village, Stann Creek District. Police say officers responded to an RTA between miles nine and ten on the Southern Highway and upon arrival; they observed the body of thirty-nine-year-old Rosita Requeña with head and body injuries. Requeña’s body was discovered by her […]
Police and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions are in a pickle tonight because they are revisiting manslaughter charges slapped against three men in Orange Walk. Last Thursday, twenty-six-year-old immigration officer Leodegario Chan, twenty-four-year-old welder Carlos Westby and twenty-eight-year-old Delthran Perez, all of Trial Farm Village, were first jointly charged with the crime […]
A fifty-eight-year-old father of eight from Valley of Peace perished on the George Price Highway this morning. Miguel Ayala, a handyman, was heading to Belize City this morning transporting meat; behind him was a second vehicle. Somewhere near mile forty-three, there was a collision with a BATSUB heavy lift vehicle heading in the opposite direction […]
Sixty-five-year-old Aurelio Gonzalez, known to all as ‘Lelo,’ remains in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with injuries sustained in a late-night traffic accident on the Old Northern Highway between Maskall and his residence in St. Ann’s. While he is out of imminent danger, his family is tonight asking for the culprit to step forward and […]
One person is dead and three others were severely injured in a traffic mishap which police say was apparently caused when they tried to avoid a vehicular checkpoint. At the intersection of the Philip Goldson Highway and the Burrell Boom Road on Friday night, police were checking a blue Volkswagen Jetta when they observed a […]
A young resident of Orange Walk lost his life in a road traffic accident around three o’clock on Saturday morning. Daniel Urbina, the son of Rosendo Urbina Junior and his wife Becky of A&R store and a friend had left the City and were heading home to Orange Walk Town when his truck crashed into […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Christian Charles was knocked down a week ago and left for dead near the Burrell Boom Bridge in rural Belize District. Swanka, as he is affectionately known, valiantly fought for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Sadly, he lost that fight earlier today. Police still have not been able to catch up […]
Aside from the two deadly traffic accidents, there were two other traffic incidents. In the early hours of Sunday morning in Maskall Village, Transport Officer Roderick Jones was crushed between a concrete house post and a bicycle by a vehicle driven by businesswoman Paula Chen. The incident happened outside of C&R’s shop where Jones was […]
It’s been four days since twenty-six-year-old Christian Charles was knocked down and left for dead near the Burrell Boom Bridge in rural Belize District. Swanka, as he is affectionately known, is still in a critical condition inside the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital clinging to life following the hit and run incident which occurred sometime between […]
