Local News

An early Saturday morning crash on the Northern Highway has left one man dead.  The victim has been identified as seventy one year old Cecil Anthony Garbutt.  According to police reports Garbutt, a resident of Ranchito village was south bound in his taxi car around one thirty on Saturday morning, when he collided head on with a back hoe that was going in the opposite direction. Garbutt was taken to the Corozal Community Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Police formally arrested and charged the back hoe operator Cecil Lewis for the offences of driving a motor vehicle without due care and attention, driving a motor vehicle with alcohol concentration above the prescribed limit, causing death by careless conduct and manslaughter by negligence.