A Belmopan resident is dead following a traffic accident in San Pedro Town. The collision occurred around six-thirty this morning on the south end of the island. Police say that twenty-one year old Vidal Escalante of Cardinal Avenue in Belmopan was driving a rented golf cart in the company of his girlfriend, Jinelle Harrison when […]
And following a story in our newscast last night, a teacher from River Side Street in Benque Viejo Town is in police custody pending charges in connection with a fatal traffic accident last Thursday morning. Forty-seven year old Ruperto Pinelo was reportedly driving a pick-up truck on the Yalbac Road when his vehicle collided with […]
And from robberies to traffic accidents, a young man is dead following a traffic accident last Thursday morning on the Yalbac Road in the Cayo District. According to forty-seven year old Ruperto Pinelo, at around six-thirty that morning he was driving towards Spanish Lookout when a motorcyclist travelling in the opposite direction crossed his path, […]
Late this afternoon Belize Natural Energy issued a release which clarifies an earlier statement made by the oil company. According to B.N.E., one of its tankers ran off the road near Mile sixteen on the Hummingbird Highway, and turned on its side. Original reports indicated that there was no oil in the tanker, but this […]
A man was crushed to death in a freak accident in Corozal. Police reports are that around two on Wednesday afternoon Israel Castro and Orlando Garcia were at the home of Alejandro Henry in Caledonia Village, helping to remove a truck engine. Garcia says Castro was directing another truck which they were going to transfer […]
An inspector employed at the Belize Agricultural Health Authority is dead following a traffic accident on the Southern Highway. The fatal accident occurred around six-thirty on Thursday evening between miles forty-six and forty-seven near the Swasey Bridge. Police say the inspector, forty year old Barrington Johnson, was driving a blue Toyota 4-Runner heading to Punta […]
This afternoon NBA star Kenyon Martin of the Denver Nuggets and his girlfriend Trina, the famous rap artist, arrived at the Phillip Goldson International Airport at the invitation of Youth for the Future for a double event on Saturday. Tomorrow morning at ten, Martin and Trina will be at the Belize City Center for a […]
Three people are receiving treatment at the K.H.M.H. at this hour after a traffic mishap on Princess Margaret Drive. Twenty-one year old Vivian Martinez told News Five that shortly before five this evening she was driving a red Geo Prizm on Princess Margaret Drive from the direction of Newtown Barracks towards Freetown Road. Martinez said […]
Just before noon today, traffic came to a halt at the busiest area of Belize City, that is, the roundabout across from Pallotti High School. Normally you would find drivers breaking the law by trying to cut in front of other vehicles on the roundabout. But this time it was two large towheads that attempted […]
While traveling back to our studio our team encountered a second traffic mishap near the Pound Yard Bridge. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting A few minutes after the accident at the Flag monument was cleared up, officers were busy diverting traffic in the area of the Pound Yard Bridge. A van burst […]
A night of socialising ended at the K.H.M.H. for a group of friends when the car they were travelling in flipped over several times. Just after midnight this morning the group was heading home when the incident occurred at the roundabout near the entrance of the Western Highway. (VO) Forty-four year old Dean Dawson was […]
It wasn’t only guns that claimed lives over the weekend as separate traffic accidents have left three dead and several injured. Starting in the north, Orange Walk police have detained one person for questioning following a collision between a pickup and a van. Police investigations reveal that around twelve-thirty Sunday morning twenty-eight year old Ernesto […]
The Indian community in Belize is mourning the loss of well-known businessman Sunil Sadarangani, the proprietor of Doony’s Store at the corner of Albert and Prince Streets in downtown Belize City. Thirty-four year old Sadarangani, who made Belize his home for many years, tragically lost his life after his vehicle plunged into a lake in […]
Twenty-six year old Jose Garbutt, the manager of the well known Jaguar Paw Resort, has been detained following a fatal traffic accident between Mile thirty and thirty-one on the Western Highway. Garbutt reported to police that close to nine o’clock on Tuesday night, he was in the driver’s seat of his Toyota Land Cruiser heading […]
A freak accident in the Toledo District has claimed the life of an elderly woman; the victim, seventy-six year old U.S. citizen Carolyn Albridge of Georgia, U.S.A. Police say around nine this morning Albridge was being driven back to Cuxlin (CUSHLIN) Ha Resort, two miles off the main Southern Highway on the Puppet (Papi) Show […]
A joy ride on the Western Highway in the vicinity of Camalote Village in the Cayo District almost turned fatal for a private security guard of the Anchor Company in Belmopan. Reports are that around one-thirty this morning, twenty-six year old Carlos Baizar was travelling on the highway with his sister in the passenger seat […]
A woman who had hoped to travel to the United States will not be making that trip after she lost her life this morning as a result of a head on collision involving two Toyota Camrys. The incident occurred around nine a.m. between miles forty-two and forty-three in Cotton Tree Village on the Western Highway. […]
It never made it to the police blotter, but a diving incident in Belizean waters has left a Canadian tourist critically injured and hospitalised since April. According to an article from the Cyber Diver News Network, on Friday, April eighteenth, sixty year old Denis Turcotte and his son Alden arrived in Belize to dive. But […]
Traffic accidents are hardly rare in Belize City but two people were lucky to have survived a collision on Princess Margaret Drive this afternoon. Details are still sketchy as police investigations continue but News Five understands that around noon today a Nissan car driven by Lee Fung Shen collided with a Rav-4 SUV driven at […]
A Stann Creek District driver has also been charged in connection with last week’s fatal traffic accident on the Southern Highway. Investigators have determined that twenty-four year old truck driver Carlos Lopez must answer to charges of Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct and Driving a Motor Vehicle without Due Care and Attention. […]
A man and a little girl are dead following a traffic accident and the driver under investigation is the Mayor of Orange Walk Town, Ravei Gonzalez. The incident occurred around six o’clock Sunday evening near mile thirty-five on the Northern Highway. The victims are Honduran Manuel Coto and his two year old neighbour, Martita Yolanda […]
A three car collision on the Southern Highway has resulted in the death of a mechanic. According to police, around nine on Thursday night, thirty-two year old Regio Lopez of Hopkins was heading towards Silk Grass in his car when it collided into a truck being driven by Carlos Lopez. As the two vehicles lay […]
A road mishap in Corozal has resulted in the death of an infant. Police reports are that around four forty-five on Tuesday afternoon, fifty-four year old Gloria Hall was driving a van from the Santa Elena border towards Corozal when at the same time twenty-three year old truck driver Marcelo Villamil was towing a forty-foot […]
On Friday we gave a sketchy report of an accident on the Hummingbird Highway. Tonight we can confirm a fatality. Police say fifty-two year old Canadian Paul Steel, a longtime resident of San Pedro Town, was driving his pick up in the direction of Belmopan from Placencia when a loaded forty foot container truck rammed […]
Reports just in from the Stann Creek district indicate that an accident on the Hummingbird Highway may have resulted in a fatality. Reports reaching News Five indicate that a towhead truck and pickup collided around mile twenty-five, north of Middlesex Village. The badly injured driver of the small pickup was said to be unconscious and […]
