And apart from all those gifts, we have to be honest, Fitzroy Yearwood also had a deadly combination of chronic diseases, including diabetes and hypertension.
It's widespread across our community and the police department and we asked Minister Musa what can be done about it:
Jules Vasquez
"Sir, is this for the department a teachable moment? I know everyone had expressed shock and sadness. Obviously, that is the first emotion, but we also have to be honest that there are multiple health challenging facing the entire community, but there is a large concentration of diabetes, obesity, hypertensive in the police department."
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"It's a very high stressed job and so we at the ministry have been doing our very best to encourage our officers, in terms of better nutrition, in terms of utilizing the gym. We re-activated the over 40 football team so that the officers could get their exercising and recently we signed an MOU with the Ministry of Health, which I think is truly ground-breaking, because it covers over 500 police officers from the Belize District in particular."
