Mayor Wagner: Children Must be Supervised at all Times

On Tuesday, word spread quickly across Belize City that a child had fallen into the canal on South Creek. The search for the child went on for nearly three hours until his body was found shortly after three p.m. That evening, at an event in Belize City, Mayor Bernard Wagner was asked for his initial reaction to the tragic news. Here’s what he had to say.

 

Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City

“It’s unfortunate that young children is not supervised most of the times are not. And it’s a supervision issue, and we have had canals from I di I grow up. I’ve never, I think this may be one of the first incidents I’ve heard of someone falling in a canal in my entire life. Again, it’s a one off type, but we can’t lose fact that, listen, a child died, I believe, a child died. We as parents have to be held accountable. We have to be able to know every time where our children are. And so I just can, from the mayor’s standpoint, that  parents need to know where their children are at every given moment in time.”