The medical community, along with family and friends of Rubia Briceño, continues to mourn her untimely demise, following a fatal road traffic accident on Thursday afternoon. The well-known physiotherapist was reportedly on her way to an appointment with a patient when the vehicle she was traveling in collided violently with another pickup near mile nine […]
A fatal road traffic accident was reported sometime after one-thirty this afternoon near mile nine on the Stann Creek Valley Road. Late this evening, police confirmed that the well-known physical therapist Rubia Analicia Briceño lost her life in the collision. News Five understands that the doctor was en route to visiting with a patient when […]
There was a fatal traffic accident just before midnight on Tuesday that claimed the life of twenty-one year old Kendra Mejia and injuring her brother, Hector Mejia and her seventeen year old sister-in-law Lizzemy Gutierrez. Sometime around eleven thirty that night, Police were called out to miles seventy and seventy-one near the Calla Creek Junction […]
Were the occupants of a vehicle that caught on fire on the Placencia Road on Wednesday morning the victim of foul play? The Belize Police Department has launched an investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of two unidentified persons, believed to be a husband and wife couple from Europe. While those details are […]
There was a near-fatal road traffic accident this evening in Hattieville involving a male cyclist who was riding along the George Price Highway. Sometime before six o’clock, a young man was reportedly knocked down off his bicycle by well-known media personality Jose Sanchez. The cause of the accident is not known, but News Five understands […]
At the crack of dawn this morning, a horrible accident occurred on the Placencia Road in the south. A speeding pick-up truck veered off the road and crashed into a lamppost as it heading from Placencia to Santa Cruz. The vehicle burst into flames and its occupants were burnt to death. Initial reports indicated that […]
Forty-three-year-old Albert Martinez of Western Paradise, Belize District is at the Central Prison this evening, unable to make a whopping twenty-thousand-dollar bail set for six traffic related offenses in the death of six-year-old Ashanti Pollard on Sunday night. Martinez was read three indictable offenses of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, and driving […]
Tragedy struck on Sunday night in Belize City when a six-year-old girl was knocked down and killed sometime before seven o’clock. Ashanti Pollard and her mother Dawn Swasey were walking on Fabers Road Extension when a car travelling at high speed hit Pollard. The child received massive head and body injuries and died within less […]
The Institute of Creative Arts is asking the public to come and party with them for the seventh edition of the Street Art Festival. The event, which will be held this Saturday in downtown Belize City once again, was created back in 2011 to showcase art and culture, giving artists a marketplace to dialogue one-on-one […]
A motorist lost his life on Sunday night in Belmopan during a fatal road traffic accident. Twenty-one-year-old Geovannie Reymundo, a resident of San Martin, was riding a black Meilun motorcycle, along with Anita Canti, when they collided into a dark blue Toyota Hilux. The pickup truck was being driven at the time by forty-three-year-old Kevin […]
Another motorcyclist perished in a traffic mishap over the weekend. On Friday night, nineteen-year-old Jerry Martinez, a resident of Black Water Creek in Trial Farm, lost his life along the Otro Benque Road in Orange Walk Town. The teenager collided into a lamppost and suffered massive injuries to the upper body. Martinez was transported to […]
Corozal police are seeking public assistance in confirming the identity of an elderly cyclist who was knocked down and killed on Tuesday night near the outskirts of Corozal Town. The fatal road traffic accident occurred in the village of Buena Vista sometime after six o’clock in the evening. Reports are that the sixty-year-old man was […]
Forty-one-year-old Geovanni Ayuso, a salesman of San Jose Palmar Village in the Orange Walk District, lost his life earlier today when the motorcycle he was riding collided into pickup truck near August Pine Ridge. The fatal road traffic accident happened sometime around eleven o’clock this morning, when Ayuso slammed into a vehicle driven at the […]
Wednesday is the thirty-fifth birthday of the Government of Belize’s chief press officer, Dorian Pakeman. But today, the man accused of causing the traffic fatality that took the life of a Biscayne mechanic, Dean Dawson, back in March of 2016, finally appeared in court for it. Pakeman was read only one charge: causing death by […]
On Monday night, we showed you the remnants of tragic accident that resulted in the death of twenty one year old Jamalski Young. Tonight, one man has been charged with Young’s death. Thirty-five-year-old Guatemalan Eric Rene Salazar Guzman, a driver of Boom Road, was arrested and charged for Causing Death by Careless Conduct; Manslaughter by […]
A Ladyville man lost his life in an accident in Ladyville village on Sunday night. He was heading to work when it is alleged that a vehicle was reversing on to the highway and it hit the oncoming motorcycle. It combusted and the blaze claimed the life of the Ladyville father of one. At the […]
There was another accident, but fortunately there were no fatalities. It occurred at mile ten on the George Price Highway, and while no one perished, several persons suffered various degrees of injuries. According to a police report, sometime after five on Saturday evening, a truck transporting cement blocks allegedly reversed on to the highway and […]
On Tuesday, we covered a fatal motorcycle collision in the Teakettle area, which claimed the lives of two young men from the village. It is the last of eighty-three fatal incidents reported in 2016, or an average just shy of six per month. While such mishaps have become as much a fact of life as […]
Of the eleven traffic incident fatalities reported in December, it is noted that seven took place between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, including the death of Gilbert Myers on the George Price Highway near Mile four after he was run over by Alfonso Noble, and the death of David Alfaro at Mile forty-one on […]
Dorian Pakeman and Alfonso Noble are both highly connected U.D.P. loyalists. Pakeman in March and Noble in December of 2016 knocked down and killed two men in separate incidents. Now, these fatal RTAs have garnered just about enough, or too much attention, because of how they have been handled so far. We’ve heard of the […]
In addition to over one hundred and thirty lives lost to violence, by guns or other means, the highways and other roads also exacted a heavy toll. Though we were not able to confirm with authorities the exact figures, as many as eighty traffic accidents took place in Belize in 2016, with quite a few […]
Traffic accidents have not been limited to the highways and by-ways. On Wednesday night in Belize City, a driver said to be an officer of the Belize Coast Guard lost control of his Jeep four-door SUV while taking a curve and wound up crashing into a fence next to a hardware store on Central American […]
The spate of traffic fatalities continues across the country, the most recent collision claiming the life of a newly-wed on Wednesday night. The Sandhill Villager was driving his pickup truck along the Phillip Goldson Highway when he overtook another vehicle and collided into a bus travelling in the opposite direction. Police have since detained the […]
Is Alfonso Noble a religious convert and if so when did he become a Jehovah’s Witness? Late this evening, attorney Herbert Panton issued a statement concerning comments he made in the media following Wednesday’s arraignment. Tonight, we revisit the tragic incident that claimed the life of Gilbert Myers and we look at Noble’s refusal to […]
Last week, you heard ACP Edward Broaster say that they were waiting for lab results from the national forensic lab in the Pakeman-Dawson case. ACP Broaster was hopeful that they would have gotten something last week, but today when he was asked he said that the report is still not forthcoming and that is holding […]
