Following the death of an elderly man in a traffic accident on the Northern Highway, police have arrested and charged the driver involved. According to court reports, this morning forty-five year old Rudolph Smith, a driver for the Postal Service, was arraigned on the charges of causing death by careless conduct, manslaughter by negligence and […]
While there is nothing that can be done to reclaim a lost life, the family of a cyclist killed yesterday in a traffic accident in Ladyville is asking drivers to slow down and perhaps spare others the grief that they are now feeling. Seventy year old Guatemalan national Saturnino Sosa was riding between miles nine […]
Over the weekend another collision between a motor vehicle and pedestrian in the Stann Creek district has left a man unconscious and his wife in emotional and financial distress. Orlanda Mes, Common-law-wife of accident Victim “He lost his mind and he broke two of his legs here. He can’t move and anytime I talk to […]
First the good news: It wasn’t a big commercial jetliner and no one was seriously hurt. But the bad news is that a serious plane crash occurred at the P.G.I.A. just before ten this morning. The Air Traffic Control Tower had just given clearance for the twin engine Beechcraft to land at the Philip Goldson […]
The Ladyville mother looking for the motorist who ran into her son has finally found her man. Following our broadcast last night, Sharmaine Borland visited the Ladyville police station where she found Vista del Mar resident Al Chanona reporting the incident to authorities. There is apparently some difference of opinion over who may have been […]
Tonight a Ladyville family is asking the driver of a Toyota pickup truck to hand himself in to police after he knocked down their loved one over the weekend. Fifteen year old Graciano Chuc suffered injuries to his body when he was hit off his bicycle while on Perez Road on Saturday night. This afternoon […]
Tonight local authorities are liaising with their Interpol counterparts to verify reports that Belize City businessman Hassan El Sayed has died in Lebanon. According to family and friends, El Sayed was travelling between Tripoli and Beirut when he saw an accident on the side of the highway. Apparently El Sayed stopped to help, but in […]
One man is dead and two others are in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Seventy-nine year old Oswald Young, affectionately called “Daddy”, was on his way home when the vehicle he was travelling in as […]
Three Belizeans have been killed in two separate traffic accidents. On Tuesday night in the Toledo district sixty-three year old Mona Ellis and thirty-three year old Kenon Rodney lost their lives when the vehicle in which they were passengers went out of control and rolled over on the Southern Highway. The driver, forty-three year old […]
Prime Minister Said Musa has suspended Toledo West representative Marcial Mes from his duties as Minister of State in the Ministry of National Development. Mes, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, knocked down two pedestrians Sunday night as he drove through Forest Home Village on the Southern Highway. According to a government press release, “the […]
Traffic accidents caused by drunk drivers are not unusual in Belize, but when the man behind the wheel is an area representative and Minister of State, what would otherwise be a routine news story becomes a headline. Tonight, while two children battle for life in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the man who put them […]
Three weeks ago life in the Bol household changed forever when their seven year old son was run over in a traffic accident near his Ladyville home. And as News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports, while his physical wounds are healing, the mental scars of the accident continue to haunt the little boy. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting […]
An early morning traffic accident caused chaos on Sunday as an out of control SUV collided head on into a house and fence on Freetown Road. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting “Do you remember anything about the accident?” Frank Garbutt, Accident Victim “I do not remember anything. There is just, after I was going to the left […]
Police officers in the Cayo district are tonight looking for the driver of a vehicle who knocked down and killed a Roaring Creek resident. Reports are that around eleven-thirty on Thursday night, cops found the body of Alford Parham lying in the middle of the Western Highway between miles thirty-five and thirty-six. Parham, suffering from […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway this afternoon has resulted in the death a teenager. Police reports are that around one thirty today, thirty-nine year old Felipe Flores was driving his pickup towards Belize City but between mile thirty-seven and thirty-eight, he knocked down a boy. Flores says the child stepped from behind a […]
A traffic accident on Tuesday night on Princess Margaret Drive left two vehicles extensively damaged but all occupants uninjured. According to traffic police, around nine that night, thirty seven year old taxi driver Mark Lord was making a right turn into the Marion Jones Sporting Complex when he was rear ended by a white Mazda […]
An accident on the Western Highway yesterday has claimed the life of one of three people injured. Police report that twenty-one year old Levan Thompson succumbed to injuries suffered in the crash that occurred between miles sixty-one and sixty-two.
The Orange Walk Bypass, created to keep disruptive sugar cane traffic off the streets of Orange Walk Town, was supposed to prevent accidents … and to a large extent it has. But even the safest roads have their mishaps … like the one that occurred yesterday. According to police an unidentified bicyclist was killed just […]
A traffic accident in the Toledo district has left a man dead and four family members seriously injured. According to Punta Gorda police, around two-thirty Sunday afternoon a Toyota pickup, driven by fifty-two year old Ignacio Avila, went out of control and ran off the road near the Golden Stream Bridge. The truck wound up […]
An eighty-five year old man has died, after being run over twice. Authorities say around seven on Friday night Andres Cano was attempting to cross the highway in Santa Clara village between miles seventy-four and seventy-five when he was knocked down by a green car. The driver, Pastor Milton Solis pulled over to help Cano […]
Two police officers are tonight admitted to ward at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. According to investigators, brothers Edwin and Gido Marin were heading to Belize City in a red Ford Escort but between miles four and five their vehicle collided with a pickup truck coming from […]
A bus accident in the Stann Creek District has left a little girl dead. According to Independence police, around four thirty on Tuesday, four year old Shaneke Ramclam was run over by a James Bus, driven at the time by thirty-six year old Liston Parham. In his report to cops, Parham said he only realized […]
Legal scholars will tell you that in order to be convicted of murder it must be shown that the perpetrator had the intent to kill. While in our next story that criminal purpose may have been lacking, the outcome was no less final. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Nineteen year old Rasheeda Young usually took a taxi […]
The driver of a pickup truck involved in a fatal accident has been arrested and charged. Jerry Moro of Camalote Village was at the wheel around three Saturday morning when he lost control of the Mazda between miles forty-five and forty-six on the Western Highway. Twenty-four year old Jose Rash, who was riding in the […]
One man is dead and several others injured after the vehicle they were travelling in overturned on the Western Highway. Police say the tragic accident occurred before three Saturday morning between miles forty-five and forty-six when the driver of the vehicle, Jerry Moro of Camalote Village, lost control of the Mazda pickup. In the pan […]
