The Northern Highway has claimed the life of a twenty-six year old man, one week before what was supposed to be the happiest weekend of his life. As News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports from Ladyville, the tragedy has devastated his family. Kennisha Garbutt, Sister In law ?It is very hard on us. We?re a close […]
Police, this time in Dangriga, are also looking for a crime suspect: the driver of a vehicle that killed a pedestrian on Sunday night. The victim is twenty-six year old Guatemalan Bernabe Choco. Choco, who was last seen drinking at a bar near mile nineteen on the Stann Creek Valley Road, was found lying on […]
It was a neatly done piece of engineering by the Ministry of Works but today the new Beaver Dam Bridge is suffering at the hands of a careless truck driver. At around eight last night a lowboy carrying a tall and awkwardly arranged excavator snapped a power line across the Western Highway and continued on […]
A Belize City man is dead following a single car accident on the Coastal Road. Sixty-one-year-old Ryan Samuels was killed on Saturday when the Suzuki Sidekick he was driving went into a ditch approximately four miles from La Democracia. Injured was forty-two-year-old passenger Rubin Brown. Both men were security guards at the Karl Heusner Memorial […]
Authorities in Orange Walk are looking for the driver of vehicle that knocked down a cyclist, fatally injuring him, on Sunday night. Police reports to News 5 are that forty-nine-year-old Guadelupe Manuel Quetzal was riding his bike from Orange Walk Town towards San Estevan Village, but a mile before reaching his destination, Quetzal was hit […]
A traffic accident on one of the busiest intersections in Belize City has left two vehicles mangled while their occupants thankfully escaped without serious injuries. Reports say that around four this afternoon, a Honda Accord was driving along Coney Drive, when it slammed into another vehicle that was turning unto the road from one of […]
One brother is dead and another clings to life following a car crash in Spanish Lookout. This afternoon I met with the grieving family. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Nineteen-year-old Jacob Loewen, Junior lies comatose at Universal Health Services. Doctors say it will be a few more days before they know for sure if he will ever […]
More information is emerging about the crash of a commuter plane in the sea off Belize City. Specifically, what made it go down and how did the passengers get out? News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This morning the Tropic Air Cessna Caravan that went down into the sea soon after its take […]
It is hard to imagine the panic and confusion that occurred inside the overturned Cessna Caravan as passengers tried to feel their way out of the aircraft. The plane?s windows had broken on impact and the inside of the aircraft started to fill with water and debris causing visibility to be very poor. But thanks […]
The cargo ship that went aground at Lighthouse Reef over two months ago remains high and dry atop the coral and there is a great likelihood that its owners will be fined heavily for causing environmental damage. That’s the word from Major Gilbert Swaso of the Port Authority, who has recently concluded the Harbour master’s […]
Civil Aviation officials continue to conduct their investigation into Wednesday’s crash of a Tropic Air commuter plane. And while the injuries suffered by pilot Gerry Proehl and his thirteen passengers were relatively minor, airline veterans are saying that the results could have been much more serious. Like many of us, News 5’s Patrick Jones has […]
A plane crash late this evening in Belize City has left over a dozen people injured. Shortly after five this evening, Tropic Air’s last flight out of the Municipal Airstrip heading for San Pedro crashed into the sea just moments after take off. Fourteen people, including the pilot Gerry Proehl were on board the Cessna […]
A pair of traffic accidents involving bicyclists have resulted in the death of two Corozal men within hours of each other Saturday night. At around six-thirty, thirty-seven-year-old Ramsey Pol of San Juan Village was knocked down while riding on the Northern Highway near San Joaquin. The driver of the vehicle that hit him, fifty-one-year-old Roy […]
A resident of Belmopan has been arrested following a fatal traffic accident on the Western Highway. Thirty-eight year old Victor Cuevas was charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care and attention, three counts of negligent harm and negligent wounding as well as drunk driving. The charges arise from […]
A young man from Jalacte Village was killed on the Placencia Road Thursday evening. The driver of the truck, Ervin Odalgez of Seine Bight told police that he was two miles from the junction with the Southern Highway when he saw three people approaching on bikes from the opposite direction. He claims that one of […]
Progress, as we know, can bring problems and one deadly example of this adage occurred on Saturday afternoon in the Belize River Valley. Ever since a beautifully paved highway replaced the old washboard sand and gravel road, drivers have taken the opportunity to shorten their travel time…and in this case shorten two lives. News 5’s […]
An elderly woman crosses a dimly lit major highway on a dark night. An oncoming vehicle sees her but it’s too late. Moving metal meets frail flesh. You know the rest. It’s a tragic event that happens more often than we’d like. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on how it played out last night on […]
A San Pedro taximan has been arrested and charged with several traffic offences after an accident on the island almost a week ago has now claimed the life of a bicyclist. Twenty-one year old Oscar Casanova sustained severe head and body injuries when he was knocked off his bike on Thursday night. The driver of […]
He was a popular figure in the developing world of Belizean music and was recently featured on this newscast promoting a newly released CD. Tonight we regret to report the death of twenty-three year old Nadir Leal of San Igancio. Leal suffered severe injuries in a January twenty-ninth traffic accident on the Western Highway and […]
A U.S. citizen has died as the result of a traffic accident in the Corozal District. Forty-one year old Lisa White, a resident of Carmelita, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Corozal Hospital, after the car in which she was riding went off the Northern Highway between miles seventy-eight and seventy-nine near Libertad Village. […]
The cargo vessel that went aground on the windward side of Lighthouse Reef several weeks ago has become less of a threat to the environment. Yesterday the two hundred and twenty-five foot freighter “Transfer” had all her diesel fuel removed–over eleven thousand gallons–and today the bilges are being cleaned in preparation for salvage operations. According […]
An eighteen-month-old child lost his life this morning in what can only be described as tragic accident in Belize City. Jarin Sankey died on the spot after he was run over by a taxicab near his home on Pelican Street around ten thirty this morning. According to the child’s mother, the baby had gone out […]
The cargo freighter that ran aground on Lighthouse Reef Thursday night remains stranded with no immediate prospect of removal. According to major Gilbert Swazo of the Belize Ports Authority, about half the length of the two hundred and twenty-five foot motor vessel “Transfer” is firmly lodged on top of the reef. One attempt was made […]
The long stretch of coral forming the eastern wall of Lighthouse Reef Atoll has claimed another ship. According to a release from the Belize Ports Authority, the two hundred and twenty-five foot long cargo ship “Transfer” ran hard aground around eleven thirty Thursday night at a spot four point two miles south of Sandbore Caye. […]
Seven days after Sergeant Alford Grinage was left semi-conscious following a traffic accident on the Western Highway we are pleased to report tonight that the commander of the Crimes Intelligence Unit is doing very well and was scheduled to be released from Universal Health Services sometime today. But as one family gets ready to welcome […]
