And with gang warfare well heated up - many lives are at risk. Community worker and mediator Dianne Finnegan says something must be done to stop the escalation - and she points to police:..
Dianne Finnegan - Civilian Mediator
"I think that it is high time for those in authority to look at what is taking place right now in Belize City, since August, and ask, if this is what we made the changes for. To see more death? To see the communities now getting all defensive, and protective of themselves, because they have to now kind of get ready for what's next. We had a calm in this city. We had a calm in this city, and now, there is an ants nest that is awake, and people are dying, and it hurts, because we worked very very hard to bring these guys together, to get, and it did not take 1 intervention. It did not take 1 week, 2 weeks, it took months to get them to see themselves as human beings, as individuals who are Belizeans, who have the same dreams and hopes, and opportunities."
"We are we at this point? Why are we allowing this change to create fear in all of us, and you aren't safe, I am not safe. None of us are safe when these guys - the bitterness and the anger starts accumulating in their systems. And I don't think we want to experience any of that."
Email
Print