A near-fatal traffic mishap along the George Price Highway sometime around three-thirty p.m. on Sunday afternoon has left several persons injured. A white Isuzu Trooper driven at the time by twenty-nine-year-old Mathew Ruiz overturned multiple times before coming to rest in an upside-down position near the Burrell Boom junction. According to the customer care representative, […]
Last Friday, thirty-year-old Shane Goff and fifty-two-year-old Alden Locke were killed in a traffic accident that occurred around five-thirty between miles six and seven on the Philip Goldson Highway. The pickup they were traveling in collided head-on into a car that was traveling towards Ladyville, but was overtaking another vehicle and could not avoid the […]
A Belize City man is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being hit by a vehicle and left for dead on the George Price Highway over the weekend. The incident which occurred on Saturday is yet to make the daily police situation report and tonight the family of Hilton Conorquie is […]
On Friday night, we showed you the fatal traffic accident that took two lives between miles six and seven on the Philip Goldson Highway, earlier that evening around five thirty. The victims have since been identified as thirty-year-old Shane Goff and fifty-two-year-old Alden Locke. According to police, a four door car driven at the time […]
An accident in Scotland Halfmoon Village on Saturday night left several people nursing injuries. While no one was fatally injured at least eight people, including children, received cuts and bruises when two vehicles crashed around six-thirty that evening at the entrance of Scotland Halfmoon. Rural Regional Commander of Eastern Division says that the results of […]
A terrible accident on Sunday evening on the Hummingbird Highway has left one child dead at the scene, another reportedly succumbing to injuries today, the driver missing and seven other persons badly hurt. It happened at around five thirty about two miles out of Belmopan, where a grey Mitsubishi Endeavour allegedly lost control and flipped […]
There was a double fatality this evening at around five-thirty p.m. near miles seven and a half on the Phillip Goldson Highway. A total of five persons were injured in the collision; two perished on the scene and the others have been rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. News Five spoke with Rural Regional […]
A seventeen year old is tonight fighting for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was knocked off his motorcycle on the Bullet Tree Road on Monday. Brendon Vallecillo of Santa Familia had to be hospitalized at the San Ignacio Hospital for a cut wound to his abdomen and severe head injuries. […]
An early morning accident on a stretch of road just outside Orange Walk Town has claimed the life of businessman, Leonel Guerra. The young man was travelling home at around three this morning when his vehicle rammed through the guardrail of the Tower Hill Bridge near the toll booth and plummeted into the New River. […]
The loss of life started on Friday night. Shortly after eight o’clock, Miguel Angel Cruz was killed in a traffic accident just two miles from where he lived in the Hattieville community. His lifeless body was found at mile thirteen on the George Price Highway beside his bicycle. Cruz was hit by a car driven […]
Police are reporting on a fatal traffic accident in the Stann Creek district. It happened at about two o’clock on Monday afternoon in the outskirts of Independence. Twenty year old Lucas Teul was found lifeless with his body partially under his motorcycle. Teul’s body was found near a creek with head and body injuries. He […]
An accident in Spanish Lookout claimed the life of a detective attached to the Special Branch in Belmopan. San Ignacio police were called out to the Spanish Lookout Road sometime between seven-thirty and eight on Thursday night following a report of a fatal traffic accident which cut short the life of Police Corporal Carlos Orio […]
A tragic accident just outside August Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk District has left one man dead, and his wife and two small children injured. Preliminary investigations indicate that Mennonite Johan Knelsen was driving a horse and buggy toward August Pine Ridge, along with his wife, his two year old daughter and seven week […]
A peculiar accident claimed the life of a mother and left two of her children and two others injured on Wednesday night in Santa Elena, Cayo. It happened at a church were the congregation had gathered for the evening service. Somehow, a parked vehicle moved from its position in front of the church, crashed through […]
Tonight, the family of San Pedro businessman Leovijildo Varela is bracing for the worse. On Thursday night, Varela and his crew were transporting three butane trucks on a tugboat from the island to the Belize City port when he was flung into the dark sea waters near the pier. The downpour in the past twenty-four […]
On Saturday night a man on a bicycle was hit by a speeding government vehicle and killed on the George Price Highway, between Miles fifty-one and fifty-two in Camalote. It was a hit and run, but preliminary investigations led Police to the home of Orlando Castillo, driver of Minister of National Security John Saldivar. Castillo […]
On Friday night around nine, sixteen year old Azir Zalazar was knocked down off his bike on College Road in Corozal. Zalar, who was complaining of pain in his hands and legs, was taken by to the hospital by forty three year old customs officer Kenroy Samuels. Upon police investigation, it was learnt that Samuels […]
The third person who was involved in a motorcycle accident last week has died. Twenty-six year old Lucita Chun, who received a large cut to the forehead, was hospitalized in a coma since the motorcycle crash around eight on Thursday night, but she succumbed to her injuries sometime today. Two other men, the drivers of […]
There were two fatal accidents over the weekend…one in Sand Hill, Belize District and the other in Hicatee Village, Toledo. On Saturday afternoon, fifty-seven year old Oscar Chacon of Burrell Boom village was knocked down and killed as he crossed the Phillip Goldson Highway near its junction with the Maskall Road. Orange Walk resident, thirty […]
The second fatality took the life of seventy-three year old Isidoro Galvez of Hicatee Village in Toledo District. Around midnight on Saturday, police came across an extensively damaged Mazda pickup near mile twenty on the Southern Highway. Inside the vehicle was forty-six year old Magarita Cal, the common-law wife of Galvez. They were both travelling […]
Two men are dead and a woman is hospitalized after an accident on Thursday night in Southern Belize. The collision of two motorcycles, traveling in the same direction, claimed the lives of thirty-two-year-old David McPherson and twenty-eight-year-old William Triguero. Shortly after eight p.m., between miles five and six on the Hummingbird Highway, police say the […]
The Department of Civil Aviation is proceeding with an official probe into a plane crash earlier this week involving a Tropic Air flight en route to the Bay Islands of Honduras. The investigation is set to continue as soon as the submerged aircraft is removed from the crash site. To do so requires a joint […]
As we reported in the wake of the accident, it is the second aircraft from Tropic’s fleet to plunge into the Caribbean Sea since December of last year. We asked Garbutt if this poses any concerns to stakeholders in the aviation industry. His response, it is still safer to fly than to traverse the local […]
On Wednesday morning, all three men were returned to the mainland after spending the night at Blackbird Caye. They were then summoned by the Department of Civil Aviation to assist with a preliminary investigation. According to Garbutt, the accounts provided by the pilot and his passengers seem to check out, however, they are conducting an […]
A Tropic Air craft plunged into the Caribbean Sea today. On board were the pilot and two passengers, who are tonight lucky to be alive after the aircraft went down near Half Moon Caye shortly before five o’clock this evening. Captain Denfield Borland, along with Honduran national Eddie Bodden and American national Arthur Rogers, was […]
