Sunday, September 19, 2010
The Belize Times
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Bloody Sunday SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
Apolonio Hernandez
Issue No. 4711
Everett Davis
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Lyndon Mangar
Marlon Zelaya
It will go down in the annals of Belizean history as one of the bloodiest Sunday’s ever. After a weekend of parades and jump up, Sunday, 12th September 2010 was a day when six people lost their lives, four of whom lived in Belize City. In Belize City alone four murders occurred in the early morning hours between 3:00 and 7:00 a.m. The victims include little Eyannie Nunez an eight year old student from All Saint’s
Primary School. Eyannie was asleep in her bed when a gun man opened fire on her home. A single bullet penetrated the wall and hit her under her left arm. The second Belize City victim was 69 year old Apolonio Hernandez who was finishing up some early morning shopping at a neighbourhood store. A lone gunman with a single bullet ended his life in tragedy. Before the police could file away the evidence from the Hernandez
murder, the crimes investigators were called to the Lake Independence area for anther murder, this time it was 17 year old Marlon Zelaya of Moya Street. Zelaya who was shot in his head was found lying face down under an unfinished wooden structure near his home. His irate uncle, Tyron Avila, speaking to Channel 7 reacted to his nephew’s death saying, "My nephew dead, everybody else is dead. What
will happen out of this? Nothing will happen. You see Dean Barrow, he is eating steak while we are eating noodles. What will we eat, that is what we will eat for the rest of our life. We blame the government for the crime because if it is left up to the government we can lock off every street in Belize with the amount of BDF and police that we have, we can put 2 police and BDF on every lane." (Continued on pg. 3)
All across Belize City, office buildings and storefronts remained shuttered throughout the business day. Albert Street, the commercial t h o r o u g h f a r e o f I n d i a n ow n e d businesses, looked more like Sunday
mor ning than a usually bustling Thursday. With the exception of Romacs Plaza and the Brodies, who opened in spite of the call for a business shutdown, the Central Business District was quiet. Even the food vendors in
Central Park stayed away from their places of business in support of the Belizeans For Justice’s call for a shutdown to protest the deadly murder spree of last Sunday that claimed six lives in a single day.
A c r o s s t h e C i t y, I n s u r a n c e Companies, toy stores, clothing stores and even Simon Quan, and Publics Stores, closed their doors to customers. Larger companies like Smart also closed (Continued on pg. 3)
FAREWELL TO EYANNIE
Belizeans voted for Change, but got small changed