It's been five days since Amandala Journalist Kareem Clarke was murdered at the corner Lakeview and Vernon Streets. Still, police have not made any arrests.
His funeral is set for tomorrow, but his media colleagues are determined to ensure that he is remembered for his contributions to journalism.
This morning, a group of his colleagues held a meeting at the UNICEF Conference room in Belize City to talk about remembering "Reemo" with more than just a facebook page. The consensus decision was that the Kareem Clarke Memorial Fund will be created to fundraise for the St. Joseph School Feeding program. His former co-worker, Marisol Amaya, the News Director for KREM explained how it will work, and why it's so important:
Alindy Marisol Amaya - News Director, Krem
"Kareem, as unassuming as he was. He touched all of us and so today 13 people from 5 media houses who could make it here for our first meeting to ensure that his death just doesn't go just like that. So, what we decided to make Kareem's life mean something to everyone and know just to keep his presence there. I know he will be in our memories forever but to also galvanized society - it's a reality that we are facing right now, it was crime that took him away from us and so, we want to tell the people behind all these murders, 'you are hurting us and we want to tell you that you need to stop.' so this is basically to say that and what we've decided is to just to galvanized the concept that the family seems to have close at heart which is the feeding program and so we decided that we will create a Kareem Clarke Memorial Fund and out of that fund we will contribute to the St. Joseph Feeding Program. we'll have a big event one time per year around Kareem Clarke's birthday which is November 21st, where we will be accepting contributions, but we will also create an account, that's the purpose of the fund for people to contribute, but 3 times per year just to keep his memory alive, we will organize a can food drive at different stores and also a part of the big event we will have an essay competition where on that day the winner of that essay competition will be announced because I've said before that Kareem wrote beautifully."
The Funeral for Kareem Clarke will be held tomorrow at 2:00 at the St. Joseph Church in Belize City. As noted in the interview, the family is asking for contributions to fund the St. Joseph Primary School Feeding Program in lieu of wreaths.
A part of the memorial event which will be held on his birthday is the proposal to include events to promote writing, literature and reading, since it was by those means that Clarke uplifted himself from very humble beginnings.
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