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Newspaper Editor charged in fatal road traffic incident

By on December 28, 2016
Alfonso Noble

Alfonso Noble

Belize City, BELIZE. Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The Editor of the Guardian Newspaper, Alfonso Noble, is out on bail after being arraigned on multiple charges relating to a fatal Christmas Eve road traffic incident.

Noble, who is also a television host on the ruling United Democratic Party’s media station Wave TV, was driving a red pickup truck on Christmas Eve towards Hattieville, when he reportedly knocked down Gilbert Myers, Jr.

Myers, Jr. was riding a bicycle in the same direction.

The incident happened between miles 3 and 4 on the George Price Highway on Christmas Eve.

Police responded to reports of a traffic incident around 7:30 pm on December 23 and upon their arrival, found Myers, Jr laying in a drain at the side of the road with massive head and body injuries.

According to police, Noble had attempted to render aid but it was to no avail as Myers, Jr. died at the scene.

Television video footage of the the pickup truck which was parked inside of the police station yard in Belize City, showed extensive damage to the front passenger side and the windshield was smashed.

Myers’ wife told reporters on Wednesday morning that she and her husband were in Belize City earlier in the day along with their children doing last-minute Christmas shopping.

Mrs. Myers and that she caught the bus and headed home earlier on Christmas Eve and was anticipating her husband’s return home.

Instead, the grieving wife said, she got the bad news that her husband has been knocked down and killed.

Noble was held in police detention since the night of Christmas Eve and was taken to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court this morning for formal arraignment before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser on charges of Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct, Driving Without Due Care and Attention and Failure to Provide a Specimen to the Police.

Noble, who is represented in court by attorney Herbert Panton, was offered and met bail and ordered to return to the Magistrate’s Court on February 20, 2017.

Noble declined comment to reporters outside of the courtroom as he left after arraignment.

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