This evening, there was a fatal traffic accident in the south. Reports are that a fifteen-seater passenger van ran over an elderly Hispanic man on the Southern Highway in Silk Grass Village. An amateur clip of the incident was sent to News Five as police officers navigated the flow of traffic on the thoroughfare. The […]
On Monday night, security guard Andy Smith lost his life in a traffic accident up north. Around 9:45 p.m., Smith was travelling in a Nissan pathfinder heading towards Orange Walk but lost control of the vehicle between miles forty-five and forty-six on the Philip Goldson Highway. The fifty-eight-year-old was found dead about ten feet away […]
There was a fatal road traffic accident in the south on Saturday that claimed the life of Darnell Swaso. Police responded to an area along the Southern Highway where they came across a vehicle that ran off the road. Not far from the scene of the overturned vehicle, the officers observed the lifeless body of […]
On Monday evening a traffic accident between miles twenty-seven and twenty-eight on the Phillip Goldson Highway resulted in the death of a man from Biscayne. Police report their initial investigation reveals Evelio Alvarez was traveling on the Philip Goldson Highway, from the direction of Orange Walk towards Sand Hill, when he encountered Mark Anthony Faber […]
Almost three weeks after being hit by a car on the Phillip Goldson Highway, a resident of Sand Hill has died. Twenty-eight-year-old Keiron Flowers succumbed to injuries he received following an accident on September seventh in front of the U-Mall in Ladyville. Flowers remained in a coma at the K.H.M.H. until he died on Monday. […]
Assistant Superintendent of Police Santiago Patt has been charged in the death of B.D.F. soldier Karl Tillett. Tillett, we are told, is a resident of Gales Point who was supposed to be on quarantine having tested positive with COVID-19. But on Sunday evening, he was involved in a traffic accident when the motorcycle he was […]
Will senior police officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Santiago Patt be charged in connection with the death of a B.D.F. soldier in Dangriga? On Sunday afternoon, Gales Point resident and B.D.F. soldier Karl Tillett was traveling on a motorcycle when he collided with an SUV driven by ASP Patt. Tillett sustained head injuries and was […]
There was another loss of life on Independence Day, but up north in Corozal. Thirty-three-year-old Constancia Cano was found dead between miles seventy-three and seventy-four on the Philip Goldson Highway near Louisville Village. Constancia was reportedly travelling home from Concepcion Village to Santa Clara in a Dodge pickup driven at the time by Fabio Cano […]
There was also a loss of life reported in the north on Sunday evening. Just after five p.m., seventeen-year-old Luis Martinez, a construction worker of August Pine Ridge Village in the Orange Walk District perished in a road traffic accident in the village. Sixty-three-year-old Eustaguio Sanchez was behind the wheel of his pickup on the […]
An elderly woman lost her life in Corozal Town on Sunday morning as she rode her bicycle and was hit by a car. Sixty-eight-year-old Julia Gongora was rushed to the hospital, she succumbed to her injuries shortly after. According to the police, the driver of the vehicle will be charged. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., […]
A social worker employed with the Human Development Department branch office in San Ignacio is dead after the vehicle she was traveling in careened off the George Price Highway and into the Mopan River on Wednesday evening. It happened between miles seventy-two and seventy-three. Police say Brenda Guerra was sitting in the front passenger seat […]
There was a fatal road traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway over the weekend. Michael Acosta was riding a motorcycle heading towards Pomona Village when he could not avoid hitting a pedestrian who was reportedly staggering across the highway. Hope Creek resident, Bartholomew Stanley was struck by the cycle and sustained head and bodily injuries […]
There was also loss of life in Santa Elena Town in western Belize. A nineteen-year-old resident died after the motorcycle he was riding collided with an SUV near the junction of Branch Mouth and the Loma Luz Boulevard. What is not certain at this time is who was behind the steering wheel. While Valdemir Lino […]
A notice of intended prosecution has been served on San Ignacio resident Leon Small following a fatal road traffic accident out West. On Friday night, Small was travelling in his Wingle pickup towards Bullet Tree Village when he knocked down and killed Orlando Samuel Williams, who was walking on the road. It has not been […]
The Belize Defense Force is mourning the death of Staff Sergeant Victor Martin. He was a special force operator, physical instructor and mentor to many officers. Martin also had a passion for motorbikes. While heading west from the Belize District on his motorcycle on Tuesday, he collided with a pickup truck and lost his life. […]
Early this morning, there was another fatal accident that occurred in the South; this time in Toledo District. A teacher was travelling on his motorcycle when he was struck head-on by a pickup truck. The impact sent Juan Chun into some bushes and to his death. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood shared the preliminary details of the […]
The family and friends of Lucinda Montejo earlier today made an appeal for blood donation and the good news tonight is that the family has received more than the amount they requested. Montejo and her daughter, Kaylen were travelling on the George Price Highway when the SUV they were travelling in collided with a tourist […]
Today, Eyder Radiel Sanchez, a resident of San Roman Village in the Corozal District was slapped with a slew of charges. He was identified as the driver of a pickup that alleged crashed head-on into a car, killing Assistant Superintendent of Police Fernando Neal and injuring another officer. The accident occurred between miles seventy-six and […]
A much-loved member of the Belize police department died over the weekend, leaving friends, family and the force to mourn the death of another senior officer. News Five’s Duane Moody was in Corozal today to find out more about Assistant Superintendent Fernando Neal, the status of the other victim and the men who reportedly fled […]
In Southern Belize, a Guatemalan laborer lost his life on Sunday evening during a hit and run near Maya King. Police responded to the location shortly after five p.m. where they According to police, Rosa Martinez was driving a single-cab Toyota pickup along that stretch of road when Diaz reportedly swerved into her lane. She […]
In an update to a story from last weekend, the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says he respects the decision of the Director of Public Prosecution to charge Luigi Chable for the crime of Manslaughter by Negligence in the death of Jillian Garcia. As was reported, Garcia was on his way home after socializing at […]
A member of the Belize Defence Force lost his life in a road crash on Wednesday. It happened in Toledo just before five o’clock when a motorcycle and a truck collided. The victim, Hipolito Sho, served for thirteen years in the B.D.F. and was a resident of Santa Elena Village in Toledo. Here’s the story. […]
This news just in…. a B.D.F. solider lost his life in a late evening RTA in Jacintoville, Toledo District. News Five has confirmed that the B.D.F. officer was on a motorcycle which reportedly collided into a B.E.L. pickup truck. We will withhold the identity of the officer until the family is duly informed. More on […]
Nineteen-year-old Jillian Garcia lost his life on Sunday night when he was run over by an SUV traveling at high speed. The incident happened in his home village of Trial Farm in Orange Walk District. The teenager had a misunderstanding with a group of young men a few moments prior to that incident and investigators […]
A young man from Trial Farm, Orange Walk District is dead and an investigation is underway to determine whether the circumstances that led to his demise were intentional or accidental. Jillian Garcia was knocked down and killed shortly after leaving an establishment where he had an altercation with several individuals. Those persons have been detained […]
