Parent alleges V.P. pulled gun on students
Tonight Belize City police are investigating a report that an administrator of St. Michael’s College pulled a gun on two students. According to Amalia Aldana, the mother of one of the students, on Friday morning she received a disturbing phone call from her seventeen year old son telling her to come to school because there was a problem. But “problem” might have been an understatement because the woman says she was not prepared for what she heard next.
Amalia Aldana, Mother of fourth form student
“He seh, ‘Mommy please come dah school right now, the principal want see you.’ And I say, ‘What happen, what you do?’ He just say, ‘Mommy please just come dah school.’ But he was crying and I tell ah, ‘Philip what happen, what happen.’ he did never tell me what happen, he hang up the phone.”
“I gone to the principal and I ask the principal what is the follow up. She tell me exactly what happened, that the students they had a misunderstanding with some four dollars that was missing from a second form student. She say the vice principal called them in to clarify about it and my son, Philip Swift, say that he say bring the witness that saw him with the money and the other boy O’brien, his voice was a bit loud. And the two boys say that the man pulled a firearm after them and she is saying that it is fake firearm and they want to keep it in the school grounds to find out what really is the problem.”
“I went to Queen Street police station to find out what to report it, they say send me to Yabra. I went to Yabra, Mr. Nunez came with me and all this time I was in a taxi. I went to the school and the principal say she can’t see nobody right now because they inna a meeting. We were there from twenty to eleven and we never see the principal until five minutes to one when the principal talk to the officer and the officer explained to me exactly the same thing weh the principal tell me.”
“Then I get the full information from my son, who say mommy yes, the principal haul the weapon because the next boy mi di talk loud and he say, ‘unu want get the other way.’ And I think to my behalf when the students they do something at school, they call you in, they suspend them, give them demerits, whatever. And this happen and they never did call us.”
“I want the education department deal with that vice principal, stating that even if the boys are talking hard they can deal with it a different way than pull a firearm, even it is fake because at this present moment he is still in St. Michael’s College.”
When News Five contacted Vice Principal Karan Chan following the allegations, he told us that he did not know what we were talking about and had no further comment. Our attempts to contact Principal Jocelyn Williams today were not successful.
