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Sylvana Udz, UB
"One of our faculties of education and arts lecturers by the name of Lisa Alvarez, her dad was senselessly murdered this week as well, this past weekend and of course little Eyannie who could have been a UB student when she grows up. Her mother is quite close to some of our departmental support staff in the city and all of you were talking this morning, we heard the call on KREM and from Mrs. Schakron and we said that we are in the business of education. education is a product, if there is a call to close down businesses to ask the Indian community and others to close down businesses, we are a business. A large percentage, so far we have 9 signed signatures from the city lecturing staff that will not go to classes tomorrow and they are in the process on informing their students tomorrow Thursday, We are going to the funeral, going with our Belize flag and we are calling on all to please support this big stance we have to make against senseless crime. It's senseless Jim and while we can't speak for UB or the management we can speak for our lecturers who have been affected, we can speak to the senseless nature of trying to educate people when they can cross the street today and die the next day. So we are calling on everybody who sees themselves as a productive members of this society to join this call to shutdown businesses tomorrow or to at least attend the funeral or to at least have a prayer for these people and their families."

Belizeans for Justice President Yolanda Schackron says overall they have gotten overwhelming support from the business community because even those who say they will not shut down have called to express solidarity.