Fire guts home behind the cemetery

Spaces have run out at the Lord Ridge Cemetery in Belize City.  But today fire trucks and police officers were both hustling through the cemetery to out a fire. A home built in an area off Antelope Street Extension caught on fire.  The investigation is still ongoing but some investigators point to faulty wires as a possible cause of the inferno. But one girl, fourteen year old Deisy Caraly, told News Five that a young man has threatened in the recent past to burn down her home.

Voice of:  Deisy Caraly, lost home in fire

“Bout round one o clock, she come then afterwards ih tell me if I ready I tell ah yes but I feel like fu nuh go. Den ih tell mi lets go den afterwards we gone I lock up di ting I nuh lef nothing on , when  I reach yonder suh I gone straight dah fu she place , she goen straight dah di factory goen sell some pints and den bout twenty minutes afterwards deh tell me dat my house deh pon fire so I hurry come check , and my house deh pon and di only person weh ,I threaten we dah mi Bobby. Bobby he tell weh lotta times dat he wah bun down my house anytime I leave from my house or di house tsya by ihself. Like last week Monday he gone eena my house, deh gone eena my house he come een and deh thief my bike weh mi deh downstairs. I know dah only he cuz he dah di only person weh live round we weh dah fu we enemy.”

Jose Sanchez

But why does he dislike you and your family?

Voice of:  Deisy Caraly

“ I nuh know. Seka ih ma. Ih ma hate we and from di first time we buy dis land yah she seh dat dah fu she land. I try tek we outta di land den afterwards ih stop fu wah lee while den afterwards ih continue wid di same ting and fra before dat she mi done tell we dat ih nuh like Spanish people rung fu she house. “

Jose Sanchez

Were you able to save anything out of the house?

Voice of:  Deisy Caraly

“I no save nothing.”

Deisy says that she lived in the home with her mother and younger sister.