Biscayne resident, Javier Moody, died this morning at the K.H.M.H. The nineteen year old was admitted and on life support following a traffic mishap on Sunday afternoon at two p.m. Upon approaching a curve at miles sixteen on the Phillip Goldson Highway, he lost control of the motorbike on which he was traveling with his […]
Two persons were injured in a traffic mishap over the weekend in Sand Hill. Nineteen year old Javier Moody and his girlfriend lost control of a motorbike on which they were traveling and are still admitted at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital receiving treatment. But unlike his girlfriend, Moody is clinging to life after he […]
Popular beat boxing talent Erron Golanche, a member of the musical group Acafellas, lost his life on Friday night during a tragic hit and run in Orange Walk Town. Details of the road traffic accident are not forthcoming from the police department. What we do know is that Golanche was seated on a motorcycle and […]
There was a near tragedy on the Boom/Hattieville road just after eight on Sunday night. It involved four separate vehicles and resulted in five persons being seriously injured. It didn’t make it onto the Police sitrep, but what we confirmed tonight is worthy of a Final Destination horror flick. First, a vehicle flipped on a […]
There was a traffic accident in San Pedro Town early this morning. Two persons were injured when the Polaris they were travelling in slammed into a fence. The injured victims are nineteen year old Julia Mejia, a waitress at a local bar, and Giovanni Guerra, a tour guide, both of Ambergris Caye. The accident occurred […]
A commuter experienced a frightening ordeal this morning when she exited a D and E passenger bus. Raquel Burke, a resident of Bainsville Area in Hattieville, was injured as she got off the bus at a pedestrian crossing in Hattieville in close proximity of the police station. When Burke landed on the ground, her right […]
A Chukka Tours bus ran over a Park Ranger this morning at the Nohoch Che’en National Park, located at the Caves Branch Outpost off the George Price Highway. Eyewitnesses told News Five that the Ranger, identified only as Jeremy, was manning the checkpoint at the entrance to the Park when he was run over by […]
Orange Walk taxi driver Hugo Moreno was laid to rest today in his hometown. In the west, the family of another taxi driver is also preparing his funeral service. Adolfo Ventura, who goes by the name of El Puma, perished in a traffic accident as he was driving to his house in Bullet Tree, Cayo. […]
On Orange Walk resident is in critical condition at the Universal Healthcare Partners after a road traffic accident on the George Price Highway this afternoon. Eyewitnesses say that a man identified as Orange Walk businessman David Medina Jr. was driving his red Ford Ranger pickup in the direction of Belize City when he swerved into […]
It is a bitter sweet moment for the national team. As it celebrates Woodrow West and Ian Gaynair, it is mourning the death of team member Luis Mendez. Mendez played defense in UNCAF games against Costa Rica that sealed a spot in the Gold Cup for the Jaguars. Mendez died tragically in Guatemala on Tuesday […]
International students attached to the Archaeology Department were heading to the Philip Goldson International Airport on July third, when their cab collided with a passenger bus. The cab driver, Eliseo Chan, along with passengers Molly Hude from Slatington, Pennsylvania, Ioanna Thomopoulou from Greece and Angela Bugeja from Malta were killed in the accident. The emotional […]
A recently released international report says that the number of road traffic deaths went down in Belize between 2001 and 2010; in 2010 only forty-one casualties were recorded. But earlier today, the death toll went up for this year following a horrible traffic accident on the George Price Highway by the bridge near the Bus […]
We reported on Tuesday, the death of three international students and a taxi driver. Eliseo Chan was transporting the trio to the Philip Goldson International Airport to catch a flight to the United States where they had planned to celebrate the Fourth of July activities. But their life was cut short when the taxi slammed […]
Summer break for schools is almost upon us, but one unfortunate primary school student may be out of school for quite some time. A near-fatal hit and run accident in Belize City sometime after two o’clock today has landed a child inside the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he is receiving medical attention for severe […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working with their Taiwanese counterparts and the family of Clarencio Coc to bring the body of the twenty-six year old student home from Taiwan where he was killed Thursday night in a traffic accident. Coc, who has been on an academic scholarship since 2010, was on the back of […]
A Belizean studying in Taiwan has passed away. Clarencio Coc has been studying Plant Health at the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology in southern Taiwan since 2010. According to students at the school, scooters are a regular means of transportation in that part of the country. Coc and a student from Guatemala, Mervin […]
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s office, Santi Castillo, was involved in a cycling accident on the Western Highway this morning. Throughout the day, a battery of tests was taken to determine the extent of internal injuries and tonight, Castillo remains hospitalized. The accident happened near mile thirty-five at the peak of a sprint […]
Just minutes after forty-three year old Isabel Antonio Ballona was being killed by armed robbers at the La Choza del Cabrito Bar, another Salvadoran national also lost his life when he was knocked down and killed a mile away. Sometime around twelve-thirty on Sunday morning, Belmopan Police found the body of thirty-two year old Mario […]
The weekend may have been murder free, but it had its share of traffic accidents. We start with the early hours of Sunday morning in the south. At about three thirty Police were called to the junction of the Southern Highway and San Antonio Road where they found two men lying on the highway with […]
There was a traffic mishap on the Hummingbird Highway which resulted in the death of one man, George Victor Crawford from the village of Guinea Grass in the Orange Walk district. Belmopan Police were called out to mile twenty-nine on the Hummingbird Highway where they found the lifeless body of Crawford on the road, and […]
A number of traffic accidents were reported over the weekend. While various persons were lucky enough to have sustained only minor injuries, two persons perished in separate accidents. The most recent traffic accident happened this afternoon in which two men escaped grave injury when the Toyota Hilux they were traveling in was clipped by a […]
On Sunday night at about twelve thirty, another traffic accident claimed the life of a Belize City man. A trip from Hattieville to Belize City ended fatally for Lexie Bradford Dixon. Dixon was a passenger in a Pontiac car which overturned near Harry’s Imports on the George Price Highway. The driver of the vehicle Dominic […]
The second fatal accident occurred between miles twenty-four and twenty-five in Biscayne Village. The body of sixteen year old Dillon Davis was seen lying on the left side of the highway with multiple head and body injuries. Davis was riding his bicycle on the highway when he was knocked down by a Chevrolet pickup driven […]
The Saint Ignatius High School of Santa Elena is mourning the death of one of its students and hoping for the recovery of another. On Saturday morning, the two students, who have also established themselves as outstanding athletes, hitched a ride from Cristo Rey heading back to San Ignacio. But they never made it because […]
As many as three persons were killed on Thursday night when a small car and a pickup truck collided on the George Price Highway. The stretch of road just before mile eight where the accident happened was desolate, but became a bloody scene and traffic came to a halt. Two victims were trapped inside the […]
