horrible news today ... last night, just after Jay and I got back from Belmopan, we heard gun shots ... come to find out, the PC (police chief), a young man, 28 years old with a young wife and 18th month old son, shot and killed (eventually) himself right in the other room from where his wife was bathing his son.  We are left with helping her to pack her home, since it is government owned and she must now leave, working around the bloody mess that was left behind.  Apparently he was stressed a great deal by bosses who were unsympathetic to his having no transportation and yet expecting him to come to Dangriga almost weekly to 'walk a beat' there too.  also, some villagers were majorly disrespectful to him again  just yesterday ... he was a Catchi (sp?) Indian who, drank in excess and was also intoxicated yesterday as well as perhaps on some sort of drug that he had needle marks from when the paramedics found him...historically Indian decent peoples have a gene that affects their ability to drink alcohol.

Sorry for only sad entry
Peace. Out.