Tragedy also struck two other families this weekend as two traffic accidents claimed the lives of a well known businessman and a sixteen year old girl. Around ten thirty p.m. on Saturday night Collet Maheia Senior, age sixty-nine was heading towards his home at mile three and three quarters on the Northern Highway when he […]
On Friday night, a car being driven by twenty-three year old George Leslie crashed into a tree. Sixteen year old Erica Cal, who was sitting in the back seat with two other girls her age, suffered severe injuries and died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Another passenger in the front seat, Luis Gillette, twenty-three […]
Also on Friday night a customs officer was hit by a van which was trying to evade a customs checkpoint outside Yo Creek Village, Orange Walk. Ceslo Marin was standing near the customs vehicle when a white van drove at high speed through the checkpoint and hit the Customs Department vehicle. The driver jumped out […]
Just before nine on the morning of September eleventh, a British Army Gazelle Helicopter went down in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. According to the British Army Training Support Unit, BATSUB, the helicopter, carrying three soldiers and the pilot on a routine exercise support flight, crashed into the bank of the Macal River. The men were […]
A family trip to Belize City ended in tragedy shortly after eleven this morning. According to police, fifty-eight year old Jesus Ayuso was traveling from Orange Walk to the city, but between miles twenty eight and twenty nine, the vehicle’s left rear tire blew out. Ayuso lost control of the Range Rover and it overturned. […]
It was a terrifying experience that could have proved fatal: a water taxi full of tourists traveling at night hit an unlit barge. Fourteen people were taken to the hospital for treatment. It was only by sheer luck that their injuries were minor. Although the Dutch tourists have already left Belize, the Belize Port Authority, […]
On Tuesday an accident on the Western Highway claimed the life of Supreme Court Justice John Rivero. Earlier that day, however, there was another crash. Around eight o’clock in the morning fifty-year-old Harvey Logan had parked his dump truck on the right hand side of the road between miles nine and ten. Shortly afterward, seventy-seven […]
Last night News Five reported that Supreme Court Judge John Rivero was involved in an accident on the Western Highway. Today we learned that he did not survive the crash. While police are still investigating the cause of the accident and exactly how it happened, information at this time is that John Rivero and his […]
Late this evening, News Five was informed of an accident between miles thirty-five and thirty-six on the Western Highway. Information at this time is very sketchy but we were informed that one of the persons involved in the accident is Judge John Rivero. There is no word of his condition but we understand he has […]
An ambulance collided into a Belize City Council tractor this afternoon near the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery. So far all injuries reported have been minor but police are still checking into the incident. What they know so far is that Ignacio Lopez was driving a B.C.C. Massy Ferguson tractor towards Belize City, towing two small empty […]
A man carrying a computer was hit by a car this morning as he crossed Newtown Barracks in front of the Sandlighter’s Promenade. Francis Wagner of Independence was on his way to Business Computer Systems around 9:30 a.m. when a car driven by 18 year old Omar Venegas which was heading towards Princess Margaret Drive […]
A bus accident on Friday in Corozal has claimed the lives of three men. Around 6:30 a.m. cane farmer Samuel Sanker was driving a white Ford truck and carrying four passengers when he collided with a Venus Bus at the junction of the Old Northern Highway. The truck overturned. Samuel Sanker and two of his […]
Yet another farmer has lost his life during a tractor accident. According to report, around 2:30 yesterday afternoon sixty-nine year old farmer John Loewen left his farm in Spanish Lookout on his tractor. A short while later, his son David discovered his father’s body with cut wounds to the arm and neck. The body was […]
A twenty-seven year a businessman from Belmopan is lucky to be alive after an accident this morning between miles three and four on the Western Highway. News five arrived at the scene moments after the accident. Liji Sen was travelling up to Belmopan when he lost control of the small Toyota car. The car, which […]
A man narrowly escaped serious injuries this morning as the vehicle he was travelling in plowed into a delivery truck. The accident occurred around ten fifteen and took place at the corner of Amara Avenue and Allemby Street. According to witnesses the Ford Taurus car driven at the time by Lan Quingzhe was going up […]
Police are investigating what may be an accidental shooting early this morning at the F and O Gas Station near the BelChina Bridge. Gas Station attendant Jose Gomez reported to police that around 2 a.m. he was seated on a stool with his licensed 12 gauge pump action shotgun talking with three men. He says […]
A private investigator was arrested and charged today in connection with the death of a man who was run over by a bus. Kirk Yard is accused of pushing forty year old Herman McKoy off a Novelo’s Bus on June eighteenth. McKoy, who was running with a group of men to catch the bus as […]
On Tuesday evening, forty year old Herman McKoy of Georgeville died at the Karl Heusner Memorial from injuries he sustained after being run over by a bus last Friday night. Reports reaching News Five say McKoy and a number of other men were trying to board a Novelo’s Bus as it pulled out of the […]
In October a B.D.F. Defender crash landed near Indian Church Village in the Orange Walk District. Eight months later the Ministry of National Security has released the findings of the investigation into the cause of the disaster. The inquiry revealed that there was multiple engine failure due to a lack of fuel. Although there are […]
A traffic accident in Belize City this evening has left two vehicles heavily damaged, but their drivers unharmed. Lt. Colonel Luke Castillo was driving his BDF Land Rover west on Raccoon Street around six this evening when he says he was run into by a Chrysler pulling out of Bocatora Street. That car was driven […]
In the last twelve months four fatal collisions and several minor accidents have taken place between the entrance of Bella Vista and the Pallotti junction on the Northern Highway. For some time Residents living along this stretch of highway have been complaining saying the road is poorly lit, there is a need for speed bumps […]
A B.D.F. soldier, who caused a fatal crash Friday night, made a bad situation worse by stealing a witness’s car and fleeing the scene. Orange Walk police tell News Five that around 7 p.m. between miles 52 and 53 on the Northern Highway a B.D.F. soldier from Guinea Grass, Hilberto Batun was traveling towards Belize […]
Another driver, who also fled the scene of an accident, is still being sought by police. Reports are that 24 year old Charles Hyde was riding a bicycle on the Northern Highway between miles 9 and 10 on Saturday night when he was hit by an unidentified car that did not stop to render assistance. […]
An accident yesterday on Douglas Jones Street left area residents without power until noon today. Telephones were also out. B.E.L. told News Five today that the original problem caused by the downed power lines was corrected at 11:30 last night, but another malfunction occurred this morning in the same area and repairs continued until noon. […]
Shortly before five this evening, traffic on Douglas Jones Street came to a stand still and residents living in the area experienced power failure. The commotion was caused when a tow head truck travelling south snagged a cable which was hanging across the street at the corner of New Road. The impact pulled down all […]
