Twenty-six-year-old Christian Charles is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was knocked down and left for dead in a case of hit and run. Swanka, as he was affectionately known to family and friends, was walking home after a night of partying in Ladyville when sometime after three a.m. on […]
There was also death and injury on the highways and by-ways, in both instances involving motorbikes. Truck driver forty-six-year-old Endhir Guerra of Orange Walk Town was found dead and decomposing between miles twenty-eight and twenty-nine on the Philip Goldson Highway in the bushes early on Good Friday. He still had on his motorcycle helmet and […]
There was a fatal road traffic accident in Toledo over the weekend. Just before midday on Saturday, forty-nine-year-old Guatemalan Jose Maas Cac was knocked down and killed in Bladen Village. Police say that Cac was seen staggering across the Southern Highway after he got off a scooter. Thirty-three-year-old Elisabelia Gilharry was driving her car along […]
A fifty-eight-year-old woman from Las Flores, Belmopan, was killed in a road traffic accident on Wednesday night on the Stann Creek Valley Road. Police say that just before eight-thirty, they were called out to miles eleven and twelve where they saw a van with extensive damage to the front and a motionless woman with massive […]
Guatemalan trucker Marcus Fernando Zabaleto lost his life at the western border earlier today when an eighteen-wheeler ran him over. According to police, they were called out to the cargo area of the Belize Western Border where they saw the lifeless body of the thirty-eight-year-old resident of Melchor de Mencos. An investigation into the incident […]
Two men were killed in a road traffic accident on Sunday night. Around eight-fifteen p.m., James Andrews and Michael Martinez were behind the wheels in separate vehicles travelling in opposite directions when they collided into each other near the Red Bank Junction in southern Belize. Two other persons travelling with Martinez were treated and released […]
On Saturday around ten in the morning, a man lost his life in a fatal freak accident in northern Belize. Elio Grajalez was reportedly fixing a tractor that had mechanical problems when it accidentally ran over him, killing him in San Luis Village. This is what police had to say about the incident: Insp. […]
A fuel crisis has been averted for now, even though a PDVSA tanker is in the harbour waiting to unload. It is claimed that government owes PDVSA, but that allegation has been refuted. Since Tuesday, nine overland tankers laden with some seventy-two thousand gallons of regular fuel have been arriving via the western border. A […]
There was further loss of life over the weekend. In the west, forty-six-year-old Arcenio Itza was knocked down and killed in a hit and run on Saturday night. But his family didn’t find out until late on Sunday. The Succotz carver was walking along the George Price Highway when a vehicle hit him. The driver […]
A BelAm retiree residing in Burrell Boom, Belize District, perished in a fatal traffic accident on Monday afternoon. Seventy-seven-year-old George Young was heading to Burrell Boom when he collided into an eighteen-wheeler truck carrying a bulldozer and driven by businessman Anselm Gillett. About a mile and half pass the dump site on the Boom/Hattieville road, […]
This evening, there was loss of life on the Burrell Boom Circuit. The details we have gathered so far are that just before five p.m. today, a Toyota Rav-Four SUV with Belize City license plates was traveling on the Boom Hattieville Road when the driver’s side of the SUV was crashed by an eighteen-wheeler towhead […]
A two-year-old girl is dead after a relative driving a vehicle accidentally knocked her down on Saturday afternoon. Thirty-year-old Elba Cruz was driving up the street to another relative’s home in Teakettle Village, Cayo District to get change for the girl’s father, Clifford Reyes. She apparently did not see Sosphie Reyes crossing the street to […]
A cane farmer was knocked down and killed in San Narciso Village around six-thirty on Thursday evening. Police say that thirty-five-year-old Gerardo Chable was driving his vehicle on the San Narciso main road heading towards San Victor Village when his vehicle hit fifty-two-year-old Hermenejildo Patt on a bicycle. The vehicle reportedly dragged Patt a couple […]
Camera footage of a hit-and-run accident on Sunday evening, January twenty-first, is cause for concern for parents tonight. A ten-year-old boy was riding his bicycle across the intersection of Amara Avenue and Dean Street close to six in the evening when he was struck face on by an approaching vehicle and dragged for some distance. […]
Belmopan police have charged the driver involved in the collision death of Leonte Ampie of Unitedville, Cayo District last December. There was a collision at Mile fifty on the George Price Highway in Camalote village between Ampie’s Skygo motorcycle and a Wingle pickup truck driven by San Ignacio Town resident Winston Gordon. On Thursday, Gordon […]
Two friends were returning home on motorcycle when they were involved in a deadly collision with another motorcycle on the George Price Highway. Francisco Polanco perished when he crashed into another motorcycle, driven at the time by twenty-eight-year-old Camalote resident, Raul Garcia near the Westar Gas Station. From his hospital bed, Jeffery Thompson tells News […]
Police have arrested and charged a minor for killing twenty-eight-year-old Shakira Villanueva in a road traffic accident. The sixteen-year-old was driving a vehicle without a license when he knocked down and killed Villanueva while she was crossing a street at the entrance of Guinea Grass Village in Orange Walk. The accident happened around nine p.m. […]
A nineteen-year-old truck driver was knocked down and killed this morning in Burrell Boom Village. Police say Kendell Goff was heading to work when a pickup truck hit him as he crossed the street. His family, however, claims that eyewitnesses told them that Goff had already crossed the street when he was struck by the […]
Police have arrested and charged Jerry O’hara David with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention for the fatal traffic accident that claimed the life of fifty-two-year-old Andres Philip Diego. Diego was riding his bike between miles ten and eleven on the Stann Creek Valley Road when […]
There were two road traffic accidents in the north, which claimed one life. Around two-forty on Saturday afternoon, police responded to an RTA on the Xaibe-Patchakan Road in Corozal. According to police, fifty-two-year-old Eriberto Tzul was driving a car from the direction of Patchakan heading towards Xaibe when he lost control of the vehicle and […]
There were two separate road traffic accidents in the south and one claimed the life of a fifty-two-year-old Pomona villager. Andres Philip Diego Senior perished after he was knocked down between miles ten and eleven on the Hummingbird Highway. Police say that sometime around six-thirty on Sunday evening Jerry O’hara David was driving from the […]
The lengthy Christmas weekend was an exceptionally violent holiday across the country where a number of road traffic fatalities and homicides were recorded. As a result of all those incidents, the police department convened a meeting of all regional commanders to re-strategize ahead of the New Year’s weekend. Operations Commander Edward Broaster outlined steps that […]
It has been another deadly holiday weekend countrywide. As many as seven persons lost their lives by misadventure; whether, murder or in road traffic accidents. We start with the most deadly of the mishaps, along the George Price Highway. Thirty-three-year-old Linda Carolina Hernandez and twenty-four-year-old Oscar Rene Alvarado of Cotton Tree were leaving the village […]
The Christmas season in Belize is regularly marked by traffic mishaps and this year has been no exception. Since Friday, no less than seven road traffic accidents have been reported countrywide, with four fatalities recorded. Five of those accidents spanned nearly the entire length of the George Price Highway, from just outside of Western Paradise to […]
He was on his way home to Belize City from Gales Point where his family celebrated Christmas Day, but sometime around eight o’clock that night, Albert Garnett would perish in a traffic accident between miles twenty-four and twenty-five on the George Price Highway. Police were called out to the scene of an accident in which […]
