BELMOPAN, Belize– Police are continuing the search for a person who allegedly tried to poison almost 2,000 residents of the San Vicente Village, Toledo District, between Sunday and Monday last week.
“No one has been arrested and charged for that. Investigators are still doing their best to find the orchestrator of that crime. Poisoning a water system is like a public terror. You can cause harm to more than one person. In these villages, we know that they rely on the water (system) for everything, so we are not letting go of that investigation,” a news conference told by the Assistant Superintendent of Police, Fitzroy Yearwood.
The Pesticides Control Board (PCB) has indicated that the bottle of Malathion 57 EC formula that the person emptied into the village’s water supply reservoir was not a registered formulation in Belize and had been illegally imported into the country.
In a statement, the PCB said Malathion, the organic pesticide’s active ingredient, is, like any other pesticide, a poison whose unintended uses can be fatal or cause serious health issues for people.
Media reports said several villagers had become ill and sought medical treatment following the poisoning.
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