But even though the Prime Minister has expressed condolence and the BDF is moving into the area, a number of pressure groups and organizations say that they will go ahead with a protest they had planned in Danny Conorquie's name.
One of the main personalities behind the protest is CWU President and attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd. She told the media this morning that you should come out and show your solidarity if you are outraged about how Conorquie lost his life:
Audrey Matura-Shepherd, President - CWU
"It is an effort being organized by the people of San Ignacio namely The Belize People Front and a lot of other NGOs and entities and with the support of the family of Danny Conorquie. What is happening is that they will meet at 9am by the Macal River Park and from there, there will be a motorcade to the border. We are trying to secure a space where the protest can occur by the OAS Office or it will be by the park that is being negotiated with the authorities by the parking lot if anything. But the thing is that we are going to the border. Why are we going to the border? Simply because we want to know that it is a border issue we are dealing with and our government needs to take heed of it. It's not to irritate anyone, it's not to upset anyone, but it is being symbolic because what we are having are border incursions and incursions which our government definitely know has been occurring for years and that it has been escalating in recent times. They know it because they have all the security meetings/briefings with the parties over the Guatemalan side, Mexico, all over. They know that this has been happening. There have been several shooting before at our security personnel near Caracol, but none has led to a fatality. This one that lead to the fatality is only now bringing to the forefront the fact that what the authorities know, but what the general public didn't know and that is why we are going to the border. It is supposed to be peaceful and symbolic and we want people to take their flags out and take a stand. You have to take a stand, stop complaining on Facebook, stop complaining in your house and just grumbling in your workplace - take a stand. It has to be that your government this is serious. Imagine, this young man died in the line of duty; he was executed in the line of duty and we don't even see our flags flying half mask. We don't even see our people crying out and protesting. Don't they realize what this means? So there are some of us with a social conscience and the people from San Ignacio as usual have asserted themselves and are making the first move."
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