Just before news time, a man was hit on the Western Highway near mile eleven. A News Five team on the scene found out that he was riding a bicycle, heading toward Hattieville when he was hit by a bus, travelling in the same direction. According to one report, the accident victim is a Hattieville […]
Four month old Xy Li Jiang is the second member of the Jiang family to pass away a day after a devastating accident that occurred at mile sixteen on the Northern Highway. The baby girl succumbed to her injuries while undergoing treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Her body remains at the morgue until […]
The northern part of Belize was on alert for the best part of twenty-four hours due to the approaching Hurricane Rina. Rina has now diminished to a category one storm and we’ll have full coverage of how residents responded to the threat. But first, there was a terrible accident on the Highway during the lunch […]
University of Belize students, eighteen year old Gladys Chiac and nineteen year old Tiffany Herrera were knocked down on Wednesday night on the Ring Road in Belmopan. The students were hit by a car driven at the time by Police Constable, thirty one year old Solomon Mas, attached to the Belmopan Police Station. While Herrera […]
A small car and a bus crashed on Monday night. It happened around mile eleven on the Western Highway, just outside of Hattieville. Thirty-three year old Melissa Almendarez and her two children were heading home when they spotted a green passenger bus parked half way on the road with no indicators. Thirty one year old […]
A traffic accident has been reported on the Western Highway near mile thirteen involving a bus and a private vehicle. The extent of injuries is not known and we’ll have more on this story on Tuesday.
While heading to the international football game in the Capital, our news crew came upon an accident on the Western Highway. A traffic mishap was reported this afternoon near mile twenty-nine along the Western Highway where a vehicle careened off the road and overturned in nearby bushes. It is unknown whether the driver of the […]
Three persons died in a horrible traffic accident in the south just after noon today. Belize City Councilor Andrew Faber, the younger brother of Education Minister Patrick Faber, as well as two female passengers who were traveling with him inside his Mitsubishi pickup truck, perished in a traffic mishap along the Placencia Road. Around twelve-thirty […]
There was another accident earlier in the day; it happened at around nine-thirty this morning on the Western Highway. Two buses, one from D and E Bus Line and the other from G-Line, both heading into the city from the Belmopan terminal collided around mile fourteen and a half. At least fifteen persons were injured […]
A well-known man of the streets of Belize City was killed in a hit and run accident near the Esso Gas station on the Northern Highway at about seven-thirty on Monday night. Robert Harrison Castro better known as Bababoo is a regular fixture in front of grocery stores and gas stations. Although he suffered from […]
Marvin Deras, thirty-seven year old radio DJ and Eco-tours operator, is dead after an accident that happened over a week ago. On Saturday August seventh, sometime around three in the morning, Deras was driving on the Northern Highway, when his SUV collided into another vehicle driven by forty-seven year old Lyndon Guiseppi. When Ladyville Police […]
Before midday today, a terrible traffic accident claimed the life of a Belizean business man, sixty-nine year old Franco Gentile. The accident happened on the Southern Highway while Gentile was driving a 2006 Toyota Prado, heading towards Silk Grass Village. Between miles one and two, he lost control of the vehicle and ended on the […]
Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries was involved in a traffic accident last Friday; he was unscathed. It happened at about one-forty at the junction of Fabers Road and the Western Highway. Commissioner Jeffries was in his Isuzu D-Max pick-up, coming from Hattieville to Belize City. According to Jeffries, a red and black Meilun motorcycle driven […]
An accident on the outskirts of Orange Walk District still has two families reeling from the tragic outcome. On Friday at about seven p.m., forty one year old Amir Awe was driving a white Jeep Liberty towards Corozal. His passenger was well known businessman, fifty-three year old German Vega Senior, the brother of the Deputy […]
There was another traffic fatality on Sunday evening, this time on the Old Northern Highway. Two motorcycles collided head on as Luis Zetina was travelling from Maskal Village and Winston Dawson was heading in the opposite direction. Ladyville police responded to the report of the accident, but when they arrived on the scene, Zetina, a […]
What should have been a peaceful and early start to the work week almost ended in tragedy for many commuters onboard a Cabrera’s Bus. About four-forty a.m., Pedro Cumush, the driver, lost control of the bus on the outskirts of Orange Walk. Several persons were injured and had to be rushed to the Northern Regional […]
Tragedy has landed again at the front door of Delia Lewis. Lewis is the mother of a cyclist Maurice Usher who was hit in a terrible traffic accident last Friday night that sent him in coma. Usher was driving a motorcycle, heading to Belize City from his family’s farm when he collided with a bicycle […]
Shortly before five this evening, a Honda CRV was driving down Central American Boulevard when a vehicle coming off of Raccoon Street hit the rear of the Mini-SUV. The impact caused the driver to lose control and it landed in the drain. Fortunately, no one was injured in the incident and the vehicle was slightly […]
There was a terrible traffic accident on the Western Highway on Sunday night. At around seven-forty, twenty-four year old Lenard Gillett of Hattieville lost his life when a van collided into the truck he was travelling in. Police reports are that thirty six year old Jose Ortiz was driving a van between miles four and […]
Two persons were injured when a boat exploded near Caye Caulker; one was flown to Belize City by BERT for treatment at the Medical Associates. Shortly after two this afternoon, thirty-three year old Cornel Brown and co-captain twenty three year old Jairo Reyes, were preparing to leave Caye Caulker en route to a resort Brown […]
A ten-year old school boy of the Hummingbird Community was hit and killed by a Hilux pick-up truck at mile twenty-six on the Hummingbird Highway on Monday afternoon. The female driver of the vehicle, Martha Flamenco, is from the neighboring village. She was detained and released and charges, if any, will be determined by the […]
And though there are two murders since Friday, there is a third person that lost his life during the weekend. Shortly before nine-thirty on Friday night, twenty-three year old Giovanni Baiza was driving his motorcycle from Belmopan to Los Tambos Village behind Spanish Lookout in Cayo. He never made it as he lost control and […]
We have been reporting since Friday that a van transporting prisoners to the Hattieville prison overturned near mile thirty-seven on the Northern Highway. One prison warden, Delbert McLaughlin died before reaching the hospital while a number of the prisoners were injured when the vehicle flipped several times. According to the police, two rear and one […]
On Friday afternoon a police van that was transporting prisoners to the Central Prison overturned around mile thirty-seven in Rhaburn Ridge. Prison warden, Delbert McLaughlin died shortly after while being rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital. Prisoners Crispin Moreno and Dean Davis, who both suffered spinal injuries, are still hospitalized at the KHMH. The remaining […]
Shortly after three this afternoon, Egzine McFoy was driving on the Northern Highway in her Nissan Pathfinder, which she had just insured and licensed, when the vehicle began smoking. McFoy says she exited the vehicle but even the efforts of the fire station could not put out the blaze and the vehicle was completely destroyed. […]
