A near-fatal road traffic accident on Sunday evening, has left several persons critically injured. The men were traveling along the Phillip Goldson Highway in a grey Toyota pickup in the direction of Ladyville when a blowout caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle. The pickup careened off the side of the road, flipping […]
This morning, if you passed by the Los Lagos junction, you probably saw a B.D.F. Jeep lying on its side just off the road. That vehicle was in a collision at around six-thirty, and it flipped twice, seriously injuring the female B.D.F. private who was in the passenger seat. Preliminary investigations indicate that a factor […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Victor Underwood perished in a fatal road traffic accident which occurred along the Phillip Goldson Highway at the start of the Easter weekend. He would be the first of two victims to succumb to injuries received in separate incidents in less than twenty-four hours. The mentally challenged wanderer was walking along the stretch of […]
According to Underwood’s brother, while he concedes that his sibling was at times difficult to deal with; his death may have been the result of negligence on the part of hospital authorities. Isani Cayetano “I understand that your brother suffered from an acute mental illness where he has been dealing with this thing for […]
The response time and how effective you respond to the scene of an accident is critical when it comes to minimizing any casualties or loss of life. It is the responsibility of several agencies, including the police, fire officials and BERT to ensure that victims are readily extricated and taken to medical facilities. Today, the […]
A couple is tonight admitted at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in a stable condition following a traffic accident on Monday night on the George Price Highway. A Ford Escape SUV in which Jefferson and Carmela Dawson were travelling crashed into a freight liner near Mile Twelve. In the impact, the SUV ended under the […]
A San Ignacio resident is tonight clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was hit by a vehicle that did not stop. Fifty year old Bernard McLaren, known in the west as the bread and bun man, is a self-employed father of three children. McLaren had just visited his kids and […]
Around nine-thirty on Wednesday night, Roaring Creek and Belmopan Police responded to an accident in Camalote Village. Aaron Eck, a bus driver, told police that at about nine-twenty he was driving near a dark area when he saw a horse crossing the street. Eck, who was driving from Belmopan to Teakettle to take passengers to […]
Eleven-year-old Austin Olivera Junior has succumbed on Sunday night to injuries he received last Tuesday when he was knocked down by a tour guide near the Airport Road in Ladyville. Olivera, a student of Stella Maris, was on his way to school that morning when he was hit by a silver minivan while crossing the […]
Eleven year old Austin Olivera Junior remains comatose at the K.H.M.H. after he was knocked down by a tour van around eight a.m. on Tuesday morning at mile eight and a half on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Olivera Junior was in front of Sky City Supermarket in Ladyville when the incident occurred. The student of […]
A young boy lies in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight. The eleven year old student of the Stella Maris School was hit by a vehicle this morning in front of the Sky Supermarket in Ladyville as he headed to Belize City to attend classes. After Austin Olivera was knocked down, whether […]
There were a number of road traffic accidents across the country over the weekend and finally, there was one arrest for a fatal road traffic accident that occurred two years ago. Police have nailed an alleged hit and run driver and charged him several years after being on the lam. Humberto Novelo has been arraigned […]
On December thirty-first 2014, a French captain crashed his steel hull vessel into the reef near some coral rubble when he missed the channel near Caye Caulker. Late January, an OCEANA team headed by marine scientist, Doctor Isani Chan, visited the site to conduct an assessment of the damage. Doctor Chan advised that the vessel […]
Where is Mayor Darrell Bradley’s taxpayer-funded late model Toyota Hilux? That’s the question everybody’s been asking for a week now, and nobody at the City Hall is saying. Well, tonight we think we have the answer for you. The Mayor’s official ride was totalled in an accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway last Friday. The […]
Fifty-five year old Baptist Pastor, Pablo Martinez is tonight fighting for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. He was critically injured in a road traffic accident this morning near mile thirty-one on the George Price Highway in the same area where a US tourist was killed last week Monday. The father of five […]
Over the weekend, there were other traffic mishaps. A near-fatal collision involving multiple vehicles, also along the George Price Highway, left several people injured. The road traffic accident happened on Saturday night near mile thirty-one, when a Toyota Camry reportedly clipped a trailer carrying a bulldozer. The impact, according to responders, resulted in a multi-car […]
A Belize City resident got bail today for charges relating to the traffic fatality that took the life of seventy year old well know educator, Maria Knowles. At around one-thirty on Tuesday afternoon, Knowles was hit by a vehicle at the corner of Water Lane and Baghdad Street in Belize City. After spending two nights […]
A well-known Belize City educator was knocked down and killed by a teenager. On Wednesday afternoon, around one-thirty, seventy year old Maria Knowles was walking near her home at the intersection of Baghdad and Water Lane when a vehicle driven at the time by a nineteen year old was speeding down the street knocked her […]
In November 2014, Elisa Hunter was involved in a terrible traffic accident as she crossed the George Price Highway to her workplace. The government vehicle which hit her was the official ride of Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington, who was heading to Cabinet. She died soon after, and an investigation proved that it was […]
We repeat that Lesby Hunter is adamant that she doesn’t want anything from Elrington, and just wants to make a point, on principle. But for the sake of a balanced story, we asked the Minister about it this afternoon. He says that what is being said is absolutely not true, since both insurance and government […]
On Tuesday, an accident claimed the life of a U.S. tourist and left another hospitalized. The accident, which involved a small SUV and a tow head truck, collided around eleven on Tuesday morning at the entrance of the Jaguar Paw road around mile thirty-seven on the George Price Highway. The driver of the eighteen wheeler […]
Before noon today, a delivery truck from the Hummingbird Citrus Limited Two- farm collided with a small SUV at mile thirty-one on the George Price Highway. One of three persons travelling in the smaller vehicle, died. She has been identified as a US tourist who was heading to Jaguar Paw for a day trip. A […]
Two persons also lost their lives over the weekend in separate hit and run accidents, one up north in Orange Walk and the other in the Stann Creek District. Just before seven this morning, the body of nineteen year old Cowpen Villager, Christian Villalobos, was found on the right hand side of the Phillip Goldson […]
Tonight, twenty-four year old Earl Pitts is in the K.H.M.H. in a critical, but stable condition after he was involved in an accident. Shortly after midday today, Pitts was on his motorcycle riding on Holy Emmanuel Street when his cycle collided into a SUV travelling in the opposite direction. Pitts, whose cycle was extensively damaged, […]
A fatal traffic accident in between miles eighty-five and eighty-six on the Phillip Goldson Highway has claimed the life of a UB graduate. Around six-thirty on Tuesday, twenty-five year old Iris Mabel Chicas lost her life when the grey 2006 Ford Fusion car she was driving slammed head on into a Toyota Tundra truck coming […]
