Road traffic mishaps are also a concern for the Ministry of Health, which does keep a running tally as part of its mortality statistics for Belize. While the figure was not available as of news time, Director of Health Services Dr. Marvin Manzanero made reference to some of the key factors behind crashes, such as […]
There were two traffic fatalities over the weekend; first, sixty-four-year-old Efrain Alfaro was knocked down and killed around two-thirty on Saturday morning. The Honduran national of Franks Eddy Village was walking a bike between Los Lagos and Nova on the Philip Goldson Highway when a truck driven by Sergio Paredez knocked him down. Police share […]
Another road traffic accident happened later that Saturday but this time on the George Price Highway. Thirty-nine-year-old Leonte Flores of Unitedville lost his life around six o’clock in the evening when his motorcycle collided into a truck driven by Winston Gordon. According to police, the accident happened in Camalote Village. The motorcycle and truck were […]
A three-year-old boy perished in a fatal road traffic accident along the Southern Highway this morning, while his father was driving a sports utility vehicle towards Hopkins Village. The incident took place shortly after five a.m. in the vicinity of Bladen. According to police, thirty-four-year-old Jose Oscar Sanchez Junior, was en route to the coastal […]
The new Civic Center on Central American Boulevard is scheduled to be launched this Wednesday, two years and three months after the old facility was broken down to make way for the new state-of-the-art facility. The government says that the price tag is thirty-two million dollars, but in other sectors, it is said that that […]
A San Juan man crashed on his motorcycle and died this morning in Orange Walk. Police say that around four-thirty this morning, twenty-four-year-old Audiaz Lopez was driving his motorcycle along a feeder road heading to his home in San Juan when he lost control and crashed in San Pablo Village. Lopez’s injured body was found […]
There were several accidents reported over the weekend, but a fatal RTA on Saturday claimed one life and left several others injured. Twelve-year-old Lelany Chan lost her life when a vehicle she was traveling in over-turned between miles fifty-nine and sixty on the George Price Highway around midday. Twenty-eight-year-old Didier Novelo was driving a white […]
An eleven-year-old boy is hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. after he was knocked down in front of DK Supermarket on the Philip Goldson Highway. A vehicle stopped and a driver signaled Emmett Burgess to cross the highway, but another vehicle that was overtaking hit the minor. Today when we spoke with the family, they were asking […]
Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Works, Errol Gentle, says that neither roads nor bridges are to be blamed for the fatal accidents that happened between miles thirty-one and thirty-two in Saint Margaret Village over the weekend. Four men died at the same spot along the Hummingbird Highway and relatives believe that the deteriorating […]
And as we reported on Wednesday night, Ministry of Works, Cisco Construction and the Belmopan Police are putting in some remedial work at the bridge in Saint Margaret Village. These works are only temporary but is a part of the Hummingbird Rehabilitation Project that has started in some areas along the highway. Signage will be […]
If you traveled along the Hummingbird Highway today, you may have noticed some ongoing works at a bridge between miles thirty-one and thirty-two – the very same spot where four persons lost their lives in St Margaret Village over the weekend. As we reported on Tuesday night, there were three separate accidents at the one-lane […]
The Garifuna Settlement Day holiday weekend proved deadly on Belize’s roads, particularly the Hummingbird Highway, where three fatal crashes took place at the same stretch of road in less than forty-eight hours. Four persons lost their lives as a result. We will have a chronicle of each incident later on, but we lead tonight with […]
Four men died in two separate road traffic accidents at the same location. We start with the most recent accident that happened on the Hummingbird Highway that claimed the lives of two members of one family and their friend. Harold Smith, Alonzo Frazer and Marlon Flowers were in Dangriga for the nineteenth celebrations and they […]
Before that fatal accident on Sunday afternoon, another man lost his life at the same spot. Glen Bert Reneau, a construction worker of Belize City, was heading in the opposite direction – to Dangriga – on Saturday night after nine-thirty when he lost control of his car. The vehicle collided into the bridge a between […]
Four persons died in two accidents at the same location in less than twenty-four hours. According to police, they will be able to rule out alcohol as one of the factors leading to the accidents until after post-mortems are conducted. Today at a press briefing, Commander of Operations ACP Edward Broaster was questioned about police […]
Sixty-one-year-old Canadian national Guy Carey Smith remains hospitalized at the Belize Medical Associates, following a boating collision in Caye Caulker on Friday night around ten o’clock. Smith was along with his nineteen-year-old son Travis Tanner Cooper Smith in a dinghy when a vessel collided into them. The boat is the property of Koko King Beach. […]
Seventeen-year-old Aurora Sanchez, the lone survivor in a fatal crash that killed her mother and stepfather over the weekend, remains in stable condition and is recovering from injuries received during the deadly collision. The driver of the other vehicle, thirty-five-year-old Delmar Ortega of Santa Familia Village, is also listed in stable condition. The accident between […]
Fifty-five-year-old Preston Coleman, a cab driver from Belmopan, lost his life in a road traffic accident on Monday afternoon. In a report issued by the police department, officers responded to an area on the San Martin Road and found the taxi man lying on the right hand side of the road at its intersection with […]
A fatal traffic accident on the Southern Highway claimed the lives of two well-known residents of Placencia. The couple was returning home along with their teenage daughter in anticipation of a birthday celebration when the collision occurred. Mark Leslie and Myrna Vasquez were travelling in a small car when an SUV driven at the time […]
In another accident in the south, a Belize Defense Force soldier has been charged in connection with a fatal hit and run incident that occurred near the outskirts of Dangriga on Friday night. Forty-two-year-old Donald Enriquez failed to stop and render aid after knocking down a cyclist along the Hummingbird Highway sometime around seven-forty-five p.m. […]
Damage on the roads was not contained to the south this weekend. On the Philip Goldson Highway near mile fifty, forty-year-old Nigeria Matura of Carmelita village, Orange Walk was driving north when she lost control of her Ford Probe and collided with a Ford Edge vehicle driven by Bella Vista resident and businessman Ray Hohenkirk. […]
A notice of intended prosecution has been served on the driver of a vehicle that was involved in a massive head-on collision on Tuesday morning near the outskirts of Belize City. Warren Davis was traveling along with two passengers identified as twenty-five-year-old Devon ‘Hulk’ Bailey and twenty-two-year-old Randeen Valerio in the vicinity of mile five […]
A small car, reportedly travelling at high speed collided into a cargo truck and the passengers are lucky to be alive. The near fatal traffic accident happened this morning on the George Price Highway. Three persons were injured; two of them were transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, while a third person, Warren Davis, […]
Media personality Alfonso Noble is due back in court on January twenty-fourth, 2018, for a preliminary inquiry into the indictable charges of manslaughter by negligence, among others stemming from a traffic accident on Christmas Eve of 2016. But tonight, News Five understands that a major settlement has been reached with Andrea Myers, the widow of […]
Irish national, thirty-six-year-old Conway Murphy was today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for last Friday’s horrific traffic accident at mile eight on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Murphy was behind the wheels of a Ford Everest SUV that collided head on into a Toyota pickup, carrying watermelons and vegetables, and occupied by farmers Ricardo […]
