Tonight, family, friends and the cycling community are grieving the immeasurable loss of young Ariel Rosado. The twenty-eight year old was killed in a terrible traffic accident just before midnight on Saturday. It happened at the roundabout near SMART when Rosado and his cycling friend Marlon Castillo were heading into the City. Rosado, a National […]
There was another traffic fatality involving a Toyota Tacoma pickup over the weekend. This time tragedy struck on the Hummingbird Highway, between miles forty-two and forty-three. On Sunday, Balmore Hernandez was driving from Armenia Village to Belmopan and was accompanied by nineteen year old Suzette Mossiah at around nine p.m. Hernandez lost control of the […]
On Sunday afternoon shortly after one, thirty-nine year old Louise Bailey was driving from Hattieville en route to the Agric Show in Belmopan when her mini-van suffered a blow-out and caused her to overturn between miles forty six and forty seven on the Western Highway near the Hector Silva Airstrip. Travelling with Bailey were nine […]
There was an accident on the Northern Highway in the Corozal District on Thursday night. When police arrived on the scene they found the body of man which appeared mangled from a recent traffic mishap. The details are still sketchy and the victim has only been identified by his surname which is Canto. News Five […]
A family who lives on the Hummingbird Highway is grieving the death of one of their own. Thirty-nine year old Edgar Otoniel Guerra, a laborer of Armenia Village and a father of seven children, was killed in a freak accident as he waited for a bus on Wednesday. It happened at mile fifteen on the […]
There’s one more tragedy to report that occurred during the weekend of bloodshed, but the death of thirty-year old Ionie Westby was not the result of street violence. Ionie was killed in a horrific accident between miles nine and ten on the Western Highway. The Placencia resident was behind the wheel of a blue Ford […]
Two vehicles collided head-on just before the lunch hour. The accident caused a traffic jam on the Northern Highway, in the area of the Haulover Bridge. One of the drivers, a Chinese national, was injured and had to the taken to the hospital for medical attention. The highway was eventually cleared and the damaged vehicles […]
There was a hit and run on the Western Highway on Monday night and the victim did not survive. Police received the call at around ten o’clock and arrived at the scene between miles two and three on the Western Highway to find thirty-five year old construction worker, Harris Fred Flores, already dead. It is […]
The Kendal crossing has been in the news for years now since the bridge was washed away by Tropical Storm Arthur in 2008. A bailey bridge was donated by the U.S. Government, but it was not the right fit and the Sittee River remained without a proper bridge in a heavily trafficked area that connects […]
Meanwhile in Ladyville, a night out in the town turned fatal for well known resident, Robert Burgess, who worked as a security officer. Burgess, along with four others, was heading back home in the wee hours of Sunday, when their vehicle ran off the road and ended belly-up along the Northern Highway. Three other passengers […]
We told you earlier about a fatal traffic accident in Ladyville, but a city resident needs your help to find the driver that knocked him off his bike and kept driving. The hit and run happened in the vicinity of the Swing Bridge where it meets Queen Street shortly after ten on Saturday night. Delivery […]
Aside from the murders, there were other fatalities over the weekend. The Mexico Creek Bridge at mile nineteen and a half on the Northern Highway was the scene for a deadly accident; two persons lost their lives when their vehicle ran off the highway. An elderly American couple, eighty-three year old Ronald Moran and his […]
The accident that killed the elderly couple was not the only traffic fatality. An unidentified man was killed in a hit and run incident on the outskirts of Belize City on Friday night. After ten p.m., the cops headed towards miles two and three on the Northern Highway where they found the body of a […]
Further west, eighteen year old herbalist, Mark Guy, was killed at the start of the past weekend. He did not make it back from the football game he attended because his car slammed into an oncoming bus near Running W Meats on the Western Highway. His family is devastated at his tragic death which is […]
While Mark Guy was killed instantly on Friday night, sixteen year old Ethan Neal, was more fortunate. He made it to the finishing line of a cycling race on Saturday morning, but unfortunately he crashed into a pick-up truck. His family is distraught but the injured cyclist says he will be back on the road […]
The community of San Martin in the Belmopan area is grieving the tragic death of five year old Sonia Diaz. The school girl was crushed by a Bowen and Bowen truck as she headed back to school; she died instantly. Her classmates and teachers are stunned by the fatality. News Five’s Marion Ali has details […]
A police pursuit on Saturday morning caught the attention of many onlookers at the busy intersection of St. Thomas and St. Joseph Streets. It happened close to midday and a number of police officers were involved. But up until late this evening, there have been no official reports by the police in their daily blotter; […]
The second accident over the weekend was on the Western Highway between miles two and three. Twenty-six year old Braulio Esquivel, a bus driver of Belize City, was travelling in a 2000 Nissan Frontier pickup from Fabers Road towards Western Avenue at about three forty-four on Sunday. A green Jeep Grand Cherokee heading in the […]
There are two traffic accidents to report tonight; one turned fatal for a Belize City Customs Guard. Hallet Baeza did not make it home from an assignment up north as the vehicle he was traveling in overturned not far from the village of Carmelita. Baeza was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to head and […]
Still in the city, there was an unusual sight of a forty foot container leaning dangerously close to several adjacent power lines in the area of Fairweather Street. According to one eyewitness, in order to avert a head on collision with an oncoming school bus the towhead attached to the container, laden with scrap metals, […]
A tour guide was killed on Monday night when a sports car he was driving overturned on the Western Highway. Thirty-three year old Damacio Reyes was heading toward his home in Franks Eddy Village, when he lost control of the vehicle. Because the impact caused severe injuries, Reyes died almost instantly. Police Press Officer, Sergeant […]
Five persons, ranging from age two to sixty-eight were involved in a traffic accident on Sunday night. According to police, Antonio Calderon was driving from Corozal to Orange Walk Town accompanied by his mother, sixty-eight year old Felicita Calderon, twenty-one year old Yesenia Calderon, twenty-five year old Abel Chan and two year old Elson Chan. […]
Three Cayo minors were injured in an accident in Cayo. A thirteen year old boy of Spanish Lookout reported that on the twelfth of January, he was driving a green and black 2007 Honda ATV motorcycle without a license plate, on Route Twenty East of the community. And upon reaching a curve, he lost control […]
A vehicle in Ladyville Village was destroyed over the weekend. It is not quite clear how the incident occurred but it was parked behind a house on Sea Urchin Drive. According to residents in the area, the Landrover was engulfed in flames. Arson has not been ruled out. The owner of the vehicle is a […]
An accident occurred on the Western Highway this afternoon between twelve-thirty and one p.m. Two vehicles were coming from the direction of Belmopan to Belize City when the incident occurred. According to persons at the scene, a dark SUV driven by one Mister Gillett was approaching to turn into Faber’s Road. The owner of the […]
