And switching now to crime news, There was national outrage last week when Belizean saw the frame-by-frame sequence of events that led to Jesse Escobar's death.
It was a senselessly violent incident that shed even more light on the failings of law enforcement training and left COMPOL Chester Williams facing serious questions of credibility and legitimacy of the Police Department.
And on Tuesday when the COMPOL entered the village he found a hostile environment that would intimidate any man, we asked him about it this morning when he appeared on Sunup on 7.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"From the time when the shooting happened, we could have seen that the tension within the village had increased tremendously and rightfully so, I don't think that any right-thinking person would not have been outraged based on what we saw on the video footage and even though I was not privy or I had not seen all those footages prior, I end up seeing the one from inside for the first time on Channel 7 andI was even more taking a back because it shows that there was some degree of greetings or acquaintance between the police, the BDF and the deceased. So which means that they knew each other. So, I cannot understand how could such a greeting had escalated to the level where someone end up getting killed. Nonetheless, what shocked me the most was the fact that the young man was killed in the presence of his wife and his 2-year-old child. I don't think that no level of therapy will be able to help that child to overcome the pain and grief of being there to have witness her father being killed. But at the end of the day while the police wanted to engage the villagers, because I was call and they said boss will we engage? I said to them no, we are not going to engage. We have to understand the pain that these people are going through and while yes, what they are doing is wrong, I don't think that engaging them would have been the right thing to do, because then you would have had a group that was so riled up and would have been ready for anything, they would not have backed down because they see police coming and that surely would have resulted into a clash between them and the police and I'm certain that lives would have been lost."
