And the one thing we didn't cover in there is how the state approaches an official time of mourning - coexisting alongside a month of celebration?
The Prime Minister discussed the difficult dualism:
Hon. John Briceno, Prime Minister
"This is a tough one, I mean we know that Belizeans have been locked up for almost 2 years and Belizeans want a chance to at least come out. If we as a government is going to say there is going to be no parade tomorrow, you know immediately the UDP is going to shout out that oh the PUP wants to kill the 10th September and certainly that's not true. So what we have done, Minister Fonseca - they had consultations with St. George's Caye committee and to ask them advice and they are insisting that they still want to have a parade, but they have also assured the committee that the parade is going to be done tomorrow and try to hold it down as best as they possibly can, but they're insisting that they do believe that they should have their parade tomorrow."
