Up north, in the village of Buena Vista, Disc jockey Sergio Mendez, who is widely known as DJ Che, was killed in a traffic fatality on Sunday. Mendez was travelling in a vehicle driven by Samantha Cordova which collided head on with a Nissan SUV driven by Gilberto Sosa. Cordova sustained injuries as well as […]
There was a three vehicle pileup on the George Price Highway between mile thirty-four and thirty-five this afternoon. A white Isuzu D-max, the property of Belize Telemedia Limited, was extensively damaged when it crashed into a cargo truck driven by Guillermo Canto. The D-max was driven at the time by Mark Anderson. According to Guillermo, […]
A two-vehicle crash in the westbound lanes of W. Mount Houston in northwest Harris County has left one Belizean dead and another hospitalized in the U.S. Car dealers, Lennox “DJ Tambran” Young, and Sostenes Tamay from Corozal were along with a third person from Cayo when a Ford pickup truck crashed into the right side […]
The National Fire Service is today mourning the loss of one of their own, Corozal Sub-station Chief Meshack Henry. Henry, who was in his uniform, died instantly this morning when the motorcycle he was driving slammed into a truck on the boulevard in Corozal Town. The investigation is still ongoing, but preliminary indications are that […]
Julia Arana was hit on the Phillip Goldson Highway on April first. The Trial Farm resident was crossing the highway when a vehicle driven by area representative Jose Abelardo Mai hit her, leaving her comatose for some time. The mother of popular cyclist Nissan Arana was subsequent released from the K.H.M.H., but as we said, […]
Fifty-nine-year-old Julia Arana succumbed over the weekend. She was knocked down by a vehicle in Trial Farm Village on April first and a postmortem exam will determine the cause of death. The mother of popular cyclist Nissan Arana was struck by a 2007 Toyota Hilux driven at the time by Orange Walk South Area Representative […]
There was a fatal road traffic accident early this morning, involving a pickup truck traveling along the George Price Highway. Thirty-one-year-old Oswald Garcia was violently flung from his vehicle between miles thirteen and fourteen, after losing control of its steering. The coconut vendor was presumably intoxicated at the time of the accident and had been […]
A second traffic mishap also occurred in the early hours after midnight, this time involving a Geo Prism traveling along the George Price Highway. Victor Aldana, a Belize Defense Force soldier, reported to Hattieville police that he had just left camp and was driving towards Cayo sometime after one o’clock when he fell asleep at […]
There were at least seven traffic accidents in the Belize and Cayo districts over the weekend, but none were fatal. The wave of RTAs started on Friday near the Burrell Boom junction. A Dodge Ram pickup crashed into the left hand side of a Toyota Four-Runner pickup. According to retired mechanic, sixty-four-year-old Kenneth Wright, the […]
An Orange Walk resident was killed last night in a traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The driver of the vehicle that crashed into Richard Orellana is police officer Roberto Teck from San Narciso, Corozal. They were traveling in opposite direction when Teck reportedly came into Orellana’s lane and collided head on. Orellana died […]
Up to news time, statements were being recorded by the police on an accident that occurred just before three this afternoon in Belize City. A motorcyclist was knocked down at the corner of Douglas Jones and North Front Streets on north side Belize City. Both the cyclist and a woman in a white SUV were […]
Fifty-nine-year-old Julia Arana, a domestic of Trial Farm Village, remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being struck by a vehicle on Friday night. The 2007 Toyota Hilux that knocked down Arana was driven at the time by Orange Walk South Area Representative Jose Abelardo Mai. According to Mai, he was driving along […]
In the wake of the unfortunate incident, there has been talk that Arana may have attempted to take her own life by stepping into the path of the moving vehicle. Her son flatly dispelled those rumors today. Nissan Arana, Son of Accident Victim “Up to now, well I noh gaan myself personally fu gaan […]
Trial Farm resident Julia Arana remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after she was hit on Saturday night by Orange Walk South area representative Jose Abelardo Mai. Arana received injuries to the head and is in an induced coma. Mai has been served with a notice of intended prosecution. The accident happened near […]
Julia Arana is the mother of well-known cyclist Nissan Arana. News Five spoke with him by phone this evening and he told us that he does not know much about the incident since he was not present at the time of the accident, nor has he had an opportunity to speak with Mai or Orange […]
Last Wednesday, the Director of the Government Press Office hit and killed forty-five year old mechanic Dean Dawson between miles twenty-two and twenty-three on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Dawson died on the spot in what the post mortem says was a head on collision with a burgundy government issued Isuzu Dmax driven by Dorian Pakeman. […]
Diana Stevenson has carried out her own investigation at the scene of the accident in Gardenia Village on the Phillip Goldson Highway. She alleges Pakeman is getting special treatment. Voice of: Diana Stevenson, Sister of Deceased “If it was Pakeman dead and Dean the driver, would he have received preferential treatment and I allowed […]
Investigations continue into a fatal traffic accident in which Dean Dawson was hit and killed by the highly connected Director of the Press Officer, Dorian Pakeman who was heading from Orange Walk to Ladyville at around eleven-thirty on Wednesday. Pakeman maintains he has been working closely with the police to bring closure to the tragedy. […]
The body of Trial Farm resident Hilberto Coyoc is tonight in the morgue at the Northern Regional Hospital after he was knocked down and killed in the Orange Walk District on Thursday night. The fatal traffic accident happened between miles fifty-five and fifty-six near Trial Farm Village. When police responded to the scene they observed […]
A mechanic was killed just before midnight on the stretch of highway that traverses the village of Biscayne on the Philip Goldson Highway. The mechanic and resident of Gardenia is a former employee with the National Fire Service; Dean Dawson was riding his bicycle when he was hit by a government pick-up truck driven by […]
There are two traffic fatalities to report, one in the west and the other across the border. This morning on the Bullet Tree Road, Cayo, a Nissan pickup truck driven by forty year old Juan Alvarado of Hillview, Santa Elena, overturned. Along with Alvarado were twenty-four year old John Xol and Byron Bracena. The trio […]
In the other fatality, reports are that sixty-eight year old Lloyd Andrews was killed as he drove to Melchor de Mencos, Peten. There were four passengers in his vehicle: Nora Leticia Sanchez and underage siblings Eva Maria, Jimmy, and Egbert Andrews. Lloyd was flung out of the vehicle and passed away in the impact of […]
A group of US cyclists training on the George Price Highway this morning was hit by a vehicle near mile thirteen driven by a seventy-four year old Denton Hendy. All six were hospitalized and it is likely that four of them will not participate in the Cross Country Race on Holy Saturday. Chris Harkey, a […]
There was other loss of lives, but on the highways. A cyclist perished at the start of the weekend after being hit by a passenger bus while traveling along the George Price Highway on Friday night. Thirty-three-year-old Jason Robinson was riding his bicycle when he was struck by a Shaw’s Bus in the vicinity of […]
On Saturday night, there was another fatal road traffic accident, this one on the Jalacte Road near the San Antonio waterfalls. At around ten-fifty that night Police were called to the San Antonio Polyclinic where they found San Jose resident Virginio Sub suffering from multiple injuries to his head and body. Sub was unconscious and […]
