Turning now to the family that also died in the plane crash on Friday; they are: thirty-two year old Michael Casey, his wife Jillian and their two young children, two year old Makayla and five month old Bryce. Mike and Jillian were employed by Bowen and ran the school in Gallon Jug, a private community, […]
An accident occurred on the Northern Highway about six o’clock Sunday morning. A black Sport Utility Vehicle crashed into the rear end of a container which was parked off the highway. It happened across from the Biltmore Plaza. The airbag was deployed and it saved the life of the twenty year old Leroy Moreira, the […]
We begin tonight’s Newscast with the story of the tragic and untimely death of one Belize’s biggest investors, Sir Barry Bowen. Bowen was piloting his private plane and just before six this evening, as he headed to San Pedro where he resides, his plane crashed in the San Pablo area of the Island. Along with […]
Earlier on tonight’s newscast we told you about the tragic plane crash that claimed the life of the highly respected businessman, Barry Bowen. Bowen and his passengers died after the plane crashed into a building in the San Pablo area of San Pedro. The passengers on board we are now told are two persons from […]
A taxi driver is recovering and is in stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after a traffic accident on the Northern Highway this morning. Police say the taxi driver, Daniel Itza, was injured in a collision involving his minivan and a Honda Passport, heading in the same direction and driven by Dion Robinson. […]
The perennial rivalry between two Belize City-based bus companies came to a head this morning at the roundabout near the Northern Highway leaving more than a few disgruntled passengers stuck in the middle of traffic. Shortly after ten o’clock two inbound shuttles belonging to Lopez Bus Company and Northern Transport collided into each other when […]
While Henry was documenting the removal of derelict vehicles, his camera caught onto an accident on St. Thomas Street. It involved a KBH security guard and a former Deputy Mayor Yasmin Shoman. He got a good view of the accident and he says that it was the KBH driver who was at fault. Philip ‘Fada’ […]
A traffic accident in Hattieville on Saturday night could have been the work of thieves using all sorts of ways to catch their unsuspecting prey. Dennis Wright says he encountered a boulder on the middle of the highway as he headed to Belize City. A blackout plunged the area into darkness and Wright was one […]
An accident near the junction of Fabers Road and the Western Highway shortly after noon totaled a brand new government vehicle valued at over seventy thousand dollars. The vehicle was licensed and registered on January eighteenth 2010, and was on the road for only ten days. It is registered to the Ministry of Human Development, […]
Two vehicles collided shortly after ten this morning in the vicinity of two primary schools in the King’s Park Area. In the impact, one of the vehicles, an SUV, flipped before coming to a complete stop ending with its four wheels up in the air. Its driver, Channel Five employee, was injured and the SUV […]
An accident on Northern Highway on Friday night caused traffic congestion on that main artery, but fortunately there was no loss of life. It involved thirty-seven year old Colin Mejia, a construction worker and a thirty-seven year old nurse, Christine Young. It was a close call and it landed Young in the hospital. According to […]
In a developing story just into our newsroom, in a three-car pile up on Central American Boulevard two persons were injured at about six o’clock this evening. Reports are that the driver of this white van slammed into a black car, sending it careening into a lamp post. The white van then crashed into a […]
In other tragic news, the B.D.F. lost one soldier and seven others were injured in a fatal accident in the Cayo District involving a heavy duty military vehicle. Shortly after eight Sunday morning, thirty-two year old Private Lucas Tek of San Benito Poite and seven other officers were returning to base at Camp Belizario after […]
Hattieville police are looking into an accident that occurred just after seven this morning on the Western Highway. Information so far is that a Toyota Hilux that was heading toward Belmopan when the driver lost control of the vehicle and it flipped over in the vicinity of Cheers Restaurant at mile thirty-one on the highway. […]
While no one was injured in the fires, one man lost his life in a traffic accident. Police have in custody a Honduran national working as a taxi driver in Belize following the hit and run on Saturday evening. Thirty-two year old Juan Rodrigues knocked down fifty-six year old Manuel Dubon and his spouse fifty-four […]
Reports have been received at our newsroom late this evening that a man was run over and killed by a bus on the Hummingbird Highway. The incident occurred in Sarawee Village at around six-fifteen p.m. when a James Bus reportedly ran over the man. Details are sketchy at this time as police are still at […]
It was not mentioned in the police blotter, but on Saturday night there was a hit and run accident near the junction of Western Avenue and Mahogany Street that sent a sixty-one year old man to the intensive care unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Stanley Usher was heading home when he was knocked […]
And while a Belize City man is in critical condition, a Guatemalan national lost his life and a three year old boy is recovering after a weekend traffic accident on the Southern Highway. The incident happened shortly after six o’clock between miles fourteen and fifteen and claimed the life of thirty seven year old Juan […]
A man from the Corozal District has been charged with several traffic offences after a road mishap earlier this week ended in the death of his friend. Fifty six year old Ramon Gonzales is charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct, Driving without Due Care and Attention, Failing to stop and Render […]
On Monday night we reported a fatal boat accident at sea near White Sands Cove north of San Pedro Ambergris Caye. Police say that their investigation may lead to charges of Causing Death by Careless Conduct and Manslaughter by Negligence. According to the cops, one of the boats did not have lights and they have […]
Meanwhile, in Ambergris Caye a boatman lost his life in open sea when his vessel, the Right Now from the Sueño del Mar, was involved in a boat accident. The thirty-three year old was returning to La Isla Bonita at about six-thirty when in the area of White Sands Cove, it collided with a water […]
Last week there were three reported fatal traffic accidents on the Northern Highway. Twenty-nine year old Dorian Herrera was knocked down and killed between miles twenty-four and twenty-five on the Northern Highway after ten in the morning on Thursday. The driver of the vehicle, eighty year old Gordon Stout was charged with Causing Death by […]
There is further grief to add to the tragedy of the death of the twenty-two year old. Friends went to offer their condolence on Friday to the Sanchez family. Thirty-eight year old Cesar Aban, a salesman, also travelled to Santa Clara Village to pay his respects. After ten Friday night, he left on foot and […]
Baby Alexander is not the only fatality that occurred today. At about ten o’ clock this morning a man from Double Head Cabbage was knocked down and killed. Late this evening a senior citizen of the United States, eighty year old Gordon Stout, who is presently residing in Consejo Shores, Corozal Town was slapped with […]
Also in the west, a sixteen year old minor luckily survived an accident involving a ten wheeler truck on the Western Highway. She has been stabilized but doctors at the K.H.M.H. say they are not sure if she will be able to walk on her own again. Shortly before five last Saturday morning, Lore Williams, […]
