Two Stabbed in Bermudian Landing after Cricket Tournament

ASP Fitzroy Yearwood

A student of Lemonal Village is among two persons who were stabbed following a cricket match in Bermudian Landing over the weekend. The sixteen-year-old minor was along with twenty-three-year-old Malcolm Reynolds at the cricket field when they got into a fight with four other male persons who reportedly inflicted their injuries.  Here’s more from Communications Director Fitzroy Yearwood of the Belize Police Department.

ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, B.P.D.

“This was Saturday night when police visited the K.H.M.H. They saw a sixteen-year-old male minor suffering from a stab wound to the lower chest area and a twenty-three-year-old male. They haven’t released the name to me as yet, but both men received multiple stab wounds. Our investigators gathered that these men were in Bermudian Landing Village at a cricket match when they got into a fight with four other male persons that it is believed inflicted these injuries upon them.  We know that police have detained these persons so far involved in that fight and hopefully by the end of today I can tell you what they will be charged for… What happened that day was the opening of the cricket season. We had several persons in attendance, including ministers and we did have a large police presence, but if you notice, this took place after the tournament had rested for the day, sometime around seven where even if you have the police presence, if you know about these villages, people like to gather up in their groups in their own area, not necessarily at the actual cricket field itself but in nearby vicinities.  So we will be looking at that and hopefully we will have the personnel to adequately police the normal matches. The matches usually occur earlier during the day, so by evening or when night is breaking we are usually concluding and people have already been dispersed.”