Across the country and abroad, viewers have grown to love Julio Escalante, the groom-to-be of our From Yes to I do reality wedding show. The soft spoken and humble Julio was on his way to work today when he was hit by a vehicle. He was rushed in an unconscious state to the Karl Heusner […]
Traffic was backed up on the Hummingbird Highway since Tuesday night, when a freight container loaded with eighteen hundred cases of Bowen and Bowen products over turned. The cargo vehicle could not make it up one of the hills at mile twenty nine sometime around eight on Tuesday night. It careened downhill and plunged onto […]
There was a traffic accident on the Western Highway on Saturday afternoon, and it was captured by a News Five crew as it took place. Reporter Marion Ali and cameraman, Jorge Tabora were at the crime scene on a dirt road at mile six on the Western Highway where the body of Neisa Pipersburgh had […]
In the north, a woman is still at the Northern Regional Hospital following a traffic accident in the Orange Walk District. According to Orange Walk police, shortly before midnight on Sunday, Francisca Bono and another female known to them only as Reina were travelling on San Antonio Road towards Yo Creek Village in a Mazda […]
While fifteen year old Shaquille Bennett was murdered, a road traffic mishap in the Orange Walk District over the weekend claimed the life of fifty year old Daniel Cowo. On Sunday Cowo, a resident of San Antonio Village, was riding in a grey Mitsubishi pickup traveling along the Guinea Grass Road in the direction of […]
A child was tragically killed on the Northern Highway this afternoon when he was knocked down just after leaving school. The ten year old student died when he was being rushed to the hospital. The vehicle, a white Hyundai van, was heading to Belize City when the student ran across the highway in Sand Hill […]
Operation Jaguar has reportedly made a sizeable bust in Belize City but it has left one police officer seriously injured. A high speed chase shortly after four o’clock between a patrol vehicle and another vehicle ended in a collision at the corners of Partridge and Vernon Streets in the Lake Independence area. The recently donated […]
News Five broke the news last Friday night that Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Development Juan Coy, was in a traffic accident in the area of Indian Creek Village. Accompanying Coy, was his wife Brigida and his brother-in-law, Venancio Salam who was driving the government vehicle. The maroon Nissan Navarro pickup reportedly […]
There are reports just into our newsroom that Minister of State, Juan Coy was involved in a traffic mishap this evening in Indian Creek in the Toledo District. We understand that the incident happened around fife-thirty this evening and that his vehicle flipped several times. Coy, we’re told, suffered minor injuries. We have not been […]
On Monday night we heard from Paula Wade, the mother of nine year old Jamil Wade, a standard two student of Calvary Temple Primary who was knocked down by a police car last Friday. The child was going to the market when he was hit. The impact caused him injuries to his face, head and […]
Last Friday morning nine year old Jamil Wade, a standard two student of Calvary Temple, headed to the store for his mother but ended up in the hospital after he was knocked down by a police vehicle. It was after eleven that morning and his mother, Paula Wade, was at home with her other child […]
A Chevrolet Trail Blazer speeding from the West Landivar area toward Princess Margaret Drive ended up on the University of the West Indies compound last Friday night. The SUV could not make the curve at the speed it was going and it went straight over the drain surrounding the school and collided into a concrete […]
We do not normally report on suicides, but this story caught our attention because the attempted suicide went terribly wrong in the Corozal District. Tonight the perpetrator, a teen from Cristo Rey Village, is receiving treatment, but his brother is the one who lost his life. The seventeen year old who attempted to take his […]
There is another accident to report, it occurred on the Western Highway this afternoon at mile forty-one, in the area that residents have dubbed Harmonyville. The victim, thirty three year old Sharmane Dawson, was lucky to survive the accident which totaled her sport utility vehicle. According to witnesses at the scene, Dawson was heading towards […]
Meanwhile, a woman lost her life on the highway also over the weekend. Forty-six year old Leticia Marva Garcia, a resident of Unitedville in the Cayo District, was in a vehicle that overturned in a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Reports are that around seven-thirty on Friday night a family of three including Garcia, […]
Just before news time, rush hour traffic along the Northern Highway near mile seven was backed up several hundred yards when an oil slick caused a vehicle heading in the direction of Ladyville to collide into an oncoming bus. While there were no injuries the Dodge Neon driven at the time by Arlow Wallace was […]
And in the south, an accident on the highway Monday night left three persons dead and five others hospitalized. It happened around eleven p.m. at mile two on the Southern Highway when a white pickup and a grey sport utility vehicle collided. At the scene of the wreckage it seems as if it was a […]
A Honduran national who was standing on the shoulder of the Northern Highway in the vicinity of Mile three, was killed during the lunch hour in the heavily trafficked area. Ronaldo Portillo died instantly when he was hit by an SUV heading into the City as he waited for his brother. News Five’s Delahnie Bain […]
While Ronaldo Petillo was hit by a vehicle as he waited for his brother, twenty-seven year old John Weibe died in a traffic mishap as headed to the home of his sister. Weibe, a mechanic, lost control of his motorcycle as he rode on loose gravel on B Lane in Spanish Lookout. He ran into […]
News Five was called out to the scene of a fatal accident in Saint Matthews Village at mile thirty-nine on the Western Highway at around two o’clock this afternoon. When we arrived at the scene three injured persons, believed to be American tourists, were being pulled from the wreckage. They were later transported to the […]
But the investigation into the last flight of Sir Barry Bowen will take at least one year to be completed. On Wednesday, the plane and all the debris were picked up and removed by Bowen’s workers and transported to his hangar. The Belize Department of Civil Aviation will complete the painstaking task of reconstructing the […]
Sir Barry Bowen was killed in a plane crash last Friday. That launched an investigation by the Belize Department of Civil Aviation of the aircraft, a V3HDR plane. Bowen and his passengers, Michael and Jillian Casey and their two children, two and a half year old Makayla and five month old Bryce, all perished when […]
A three year old in the Corozal District was killed in a tragic accident on Monday as she and her mother were riding on a bicycle. The investigation is still at an early stage and so far the police have only gotten the Venus bus driver’s version of what happened. The reports are that seventeen […]
Sir Barry Bowen, the business tycoon who was tragically killed in a plane crash on Friday, will be interned this Tuesday at the San Ignacio cemetery, beside his parents who pre-decease him. He will be given an official funeral; he was named Senator in 1998 and conferred with knighthood in 2007. Before his burial, a […]
Despite his great business success, Sir Barry Bowen in life was not one to seek media attention; in fact he rarely gave interviews. But he did last year when he fought legally for the rights of landowners and access to the courts. The decision of an appeal in this case is still pending. Bowen is […]
