At approximately 11:30 this morning a 10 wheel, refrigerated delivery truck spun out of control on the Boom-Hattieville road, and left a sea of shrimps littering the edge of the highway.
The truck with its cargo of 21 Thousand pounds of shrimp loaded at 6:30 this morning at the Aquamar Shrimp facility in Mango Creek, was headed to the Belize-Mexico border for exportation to Mexico.
Ricardo Sanchez-Nunez, the Operations Manager of Commercial-liz-adora Ricmar Peninsula, says 2 faulty rear tires blew, as the truck driver tried to hug a curve, just 2miles from Fresh Pond.
Dozens of curious and opportunistic passers-by took advantage of the unsecured scene of the accident, and pillaged whatever amount of shrimp they could carry.
When our team arrived on the scene this afternoon, the efforts by the owners, at trying to salvage as much of the shrimp as possible was still in full swing, with the help of a group of men from the nearby villages of Hattieville, Boom and Fresh pond.
Richardo Sanchez-Nunez - Commercializadora Ricmar Peninsular
"It's an accident, the two back tires exploded, when the tires blew out the vehicle went to one side and broke the support of the container box. The load in the container shifted, and that's what caused the vehicle to turn over on its side. That's how it actually happened. And how much shrimps have been lost? That is a problem for two reasons. One is the climate, the ice has melted. The other reason is that the people they come along, and you tell them not to take it, no matter how u tell them not to take it, they still take the shrimps. It's very difficult to control this type of thing. If we save 70 to 80 percent, that will be very good. This is what we are doing right now, transferring the shrimps to another truck that will take it back to Aquamar in Mango Creek, and we will take off the head, because that's the first thing that spoils, and that's the way we hope to salvage the load."
Jim McFadzean
"How many people, you believe, have benefitted from this accident?"
Floyd Carter - Coordinating Shrimp Recovery
"Well, I think that most of the people who passed by are over 200 people, passing through the Boom Road. We are part of the village, so we just came and assisted these people, you know. And they are from Mexico, so I just came and assisted along with a couple of my friends from Hattieville. We are just trying to make a couple bucks. We are poor people, and we have to eat."
Jim McFadzean
"I noted that the guy who's in charge of the operation said that he was willing to give away some of the shrimp to people who would help him. But most of the people aren't really helping him. It's just a number of you that are out here trying to assist him."
Floyd Carter - Coordinating Shrimp Recovery
"Well, when I came on the scene with some of my fellow brethren from Hattieville, the Mexican offered us a job to pick up most of the shrimps, and he offered us at least about 4 cases of the shrimps, but the passers-by came and picked up the cases - you know, typical Belizean - they came, picked up some of the cases, and walked off with it. And the man was getting annoyed about it. I, as the second for the man - he told me to just take care of the business, and I had to chase them away."
The driver of the truck escaped with injuries that are said to be not life-threatening.
Antenna Gets Men Seriously Shocked In San Antonio
Three men received a major electrical shock when they were trying to install an outdoor antenna.
It happened in San Antonio Village in the Cayo district when 19 year old Kevin Tzib, got 20 year old Larry Tzib and 22 year old Lizandro Mai to put up the antenna.
Kevin and Larry climbed atop a mango tree trying to get the wire across to a bamboo pole while Lizandro Mai was holding the antenna wire at the bottom.
Things went wrong, when the pole bent and the antenna touched a nearby electrical wire on the lamp-post.
The jolt of the shock threw Kevin off the tree while Lizandro Mai got shocked through the wire and fell unconscious on the ground with major electrical burns on both legs, his groin area and right hand. Larry Tzib was also shocked. All three were taken to the San Ignacio Town Hospital in stable condition.
The National Anthem In Kriol
You may have heard the Garifuna version of the national anthem, but we've never heard one in Spanish or for that matter, creole.
Well, we can confirm that the anthem in creole is on the way - delivered, by who else, the Queen of Brukdown, Leela Vernon.
She recorded it with Emmeth Young on drums and Henry Martinez on guitar - and it is done in Nyabinghi drumming style.
The CD will be released in Vernon's hometown, Punta Gorda on Saturday - but her people sent out a brief snippet today - and here's how it sounds:
Leela Vernon - Artist
(Sings) O, Lan a di free bai di Kyaribeeyan See
Wi korij wi plej fi kip yu free
Unu tairant kyaahn stay ya; unu despots hafu goh
Fahn disya plays a demokrasi.
That snippet came from a story about Leela Vernon which was broadcasted on national radio in the United States to more than 2 million listeners.
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