And to build on that health angle, tonight we're taking a look at Fitzroy Yearwood's passing through the eyes and the insight of two medical professionals: Dr Fernando Cuellar and Dr Marvin Manzanero. We asked Cuellar about the long-standing symptoms and eventual event that killed ASP Yearwood.
Dr. Fernando Cuellar, Medical Doctor
"My condolences to Mr Yearwood's family I know them well, I knew Mr Yearwood pretty good, a very young fellow, just entering into his Prime you know at 47, um being visible all around Belize on the Television on a regular basis doing his job as best as he could have done and indeed stroke is an epidemic here in Belize."
"The word stroke of course would mean that it's sudden, it's a sudden condition that affects the function of your brain and it also would mean that either a blood vessel gets ruptured or it busts like how we say in good creole, a blood vessel bursts in your head."
"The other big type of stroke you have is where the blood vessels gets stopped up so to speak and there is no blood flow to that area of the brain that would be supplied by those blood vessels. So, once again we have two main categories of stroke."
"In cases unlike the unfortunate thing with Mr Yearwood it was massive that it bursts and blood id all over the brain that isn't supposed to be there and causes the brain to swell and it's not just the amount sometimes but the area of the brain that is affected that is crucial because you know people do survive from strokes with, they are left with not being able to move a certain part of their body, they can't talk or that kind of way and some people die suddenly, and to a large part here are preventable conditions."
