Zabaneh death investigation moves forward slowly

In other police news, the Ministry of National Security has issued an update on the case of David Zabaneh, the fourteen-year-old killed during an altercation with British Soldiers at Raul’s Rose Garden on May tenth. According to the release, over five hundred witnesses have been interviewed, but much more investigative work remains to be done. Members of the Royal Military Police are now back in Belize interviewing additional witnesses, but the investigation is not expected to be completed until early 2002. Belize police are assisting in the case although jurisdiction has been ceded to the British military.