A primary school teacher and her five-year-old son were struck by a vehicle on Monday evening in Lord’s Bank as they were walking home. Tessa Myvett, a teacher at Bernice Yorke Institute of Learning, was along with her son when a vehicle knocked them down. While the little boy escaped serious injury, his mother wasn’t […]
An A.S.R./B.S.I. trailer truck carrying molasses overturned on the Hummingbird Highway, this morning. The driver was on his way to deliver molasses to A.S.R.’s Big Creek Port facility for export. A group of passersby rendered assistance to free the driver from beneath the truck where he was trapped. He was then transported to the Southern […]
Neal also spoke about the company’s containment procedures when it comes to responding to a spill. He says A.S.R.’s Environmental Health and Safety team responded to the scene immediately, and contacted the Department of Environment. William Neal, Communications Director, ASR/BSI “At the same time, our EHS team, our environmental health and safety has been […]
There was a road traffic accident along the Stann Creek Valley Road on Friday evening that has left a male cyclist recovering from injuries at the Southern Regional Hospital. According to Polly Alford, she was driving a Toyota Rav 4 along that stretch of road in the direction of Pomona Village and upon reaching mile […]
Well-known attorney Orson “OJ” Elrington ran afoul of the law over the weekend when he made an illegal turn in front of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Saturday night. While driving his 2010 Ford Explorer, the U.D.P. caretaker for Freetown made a left on the ambulance exit on Princess Margaret Drive near Belize Elementary […]
Twenty-one-year-old Kevin Ack, a police officer of Santa Theresa Village, lost his life over the weekend in a motorcycle accident. Shortly after seven p.m. on May nineteenth, police responded to a scene between miles thirty-five and thirty-six on the Southern Highway where they observed Ack bleeding from the mouth and ears. According to ASP Fitzroy […]
Another police officer is recovering from injuries he received during a motorcycle collision in the vicinity of Naia Resort. Police Constable Jose Carabantes was riding a red Lifan motorcycle when he attempted to overtake another motorcycle that was being driven by twenty-two-year-old Damian Avilez. When Avilez indicated that he was turning into the compound, Carabantes […]
A group of law enforcement officers from Belize City who were returning from a Pontoon Waterfall adventure tour in Cayo District, was involved in a road traffic accident that has left one policeman clinging to life. The van assigned to Precinct Two was being driven by Police Constable Douglas Card at the time of the […]
A road traffic accident claimed the life of a woman on the Hummingbird Highway. The deceased, identified as sixty-four-year-old Bernalda Pinelo, a resident of Mullins River Village in the Stann Creek District, was traveling in the passenger seat of a pickup truck along with fifty-three-year-old Paul Bernard when it collided into a James Bus. The […]
A number of road traffic accidents occurred over the extended weekend. Unfortunately, an accident on the Burrell Boom Road, near Butter Cup Estate, claimed the life of a man. Sergio Eck was the driver of a Nissan Altima, traveling along with him was three other persons: Roshane, Kia and Karrie Flowers – all residents of […]
He was flung off his motorcycle two Sundays ago when he and his friend crashed into a guardrail along the Cristo Rey road. Reports are that Daniel Morales was driving a motorcycle that had no light and lost control and ran into the guardrail. He suffered several broken bones in his arms and legs and […]
Habet told us that while Morales had suffered a slight head injury, they were hopeful because he had suffered mainly broken bones in his arms and legs. Morales’s sister, Vanessa Pinelo explained what caused the accident. Voice of: Vanessa Pinelo, Sister of deceased “He mi di come wid wa group ah people and his […]
There was a deadly crash on the George Price Highway on Holy Saturday that claimed the life of a Guatemalan national who was driving a cargo truck between miles forty-one and forty-two when he collided head-on into a freightliner traveling in the opposite direction. The incident happened while the Cross Country Cycling Classic was underway. […]
There have been questions raised about the haste with which the scene of the deadly accident was processed. While those concerns may be valid, Communications Director Fitzroy Yearwood says that the officers who responded to the scene were thorough in their work and moved quickly so as not to impede the progress of the race. […]
Police are seeking assistance from the public in gathering information that may lead to an arrest in a hit and run incident that claimed the life of a thirty-three-year-old father. Moises Rogelio was on his way to his San Jose Palmar home in the Orange Walk District when he was knocked off his motorcycle near […]
The Cycling Federation of Belize has lost two members of its team in a motorcycle accident Sunday. It happened when the Annual Women’s Cross Country Cycling Classic was underway from San Ignacio to Belize City. News Five’s Marion Ali has the tragic story. Dion Leslie, Vice President, Cycling Federation of Belize “Mr. Banks and […]
It is the first fatal accident being reported in Gales Point Manatee, but on Saturday night, seventeen-year-old Jashua Samuels lost his life after he lost control of a motorcycle. Around six p.m., Samuels was riding the motorcycle near the cemetery in the village when he crashed into a lamppost and sustained severe head and body […]
In another motorcycle accident over the weekend, Khalila Rodriguez and Daniel Morales were seriously injured, but survived. That crash happened Sunday night on the Cristo Rey road in the Cayo District. Today ASP Fitzroy Yearwood shared the information available. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “Police responded to a report around six […]
Two friends perished when the vehicle they were traveling in careened off the San Felipe Road in Trinidad Village, Orange Walk and flipped over several times. The incident happened Saturday night when the pair was returning home. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting Two friends from Trinidad Village lost their lives sometime […]
A woman has died in a traffic accident out west over the weekend. It happened in Selena Village off the Spanish Lookout Road around ten thirty p.m. on Saturday. The Police Department’s Communications Director, Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood, shared the details of what police found at the scene. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize […]
Two motorcycles collided around one on Saturday afternoon in Santa Elena Town, Cayo, and its result was deadly. When police arrived at the scene on George Price Street, they found twenty-six-year-old Isaiah Sandoval, and a sixteen-year-old minor who were riding a blue Meilun motorcycle, and not far away, a green Kawasaki motorcycle, driven by twenty-year-old […]
A vessel docked at a pier in Caye Caulker went up in flames overnight and investigators are yet to determine the cause of the fire. It happened just before midnight at Blue Wave Pier where a Cabin Cruiser Bertram boat was moored. When fire officials were summoned to the location they discovered the thirty-eight foot […]
One vehicle overtaking another on the highway has lead to two deaths over the weekend in the Corozal District. Police say thirteen people were travelling in a van in the Louisville Village area when a van with a Dangriga license plate carrying three passengers tried to overtake them. In the process the vans collided, leaving […]
A mother is dead and her eight year old son is hospitalized, fighting for his life, following a road traffic accident in Spanish Lookout over the weekend. One man, the driver of a Toyota Ford Runner, has since been served with a Notice of Intended Prosecution. Police gave us the details of this unfortunate incident. […]
A police prison van caught fire on the Western Highway this morning as it was transporting prisoners to Belmopan for a court hearing. Only a short distance from the prison, the van went up in flames. Fortunately, the prisoners and officers were able to escape the fire. ASP Yearwood tells us more. ASP Fitzroy […]
