The woes of Belize Rural North Area Representative Edmund Castro have been well catalogues. His sheep have been killed, a hog's head was placed on his desk, his cabanas were burnt down and now his brother's house was burned down.
It happened on Saturday afternoon. Edwin Castro who lives about 200 feet behind Edmund in Maskall village left home with his family on Saturday afternoon, but by the time he got to Orange Walk, his sister had bad news: his home where he and his wife and three kids had lived for 13 years had been burnt down.
He hurried back to Maskall where he found his cement bungalow not just burnt down but mysteriously in a state of collapse. He told us about the deeply disturbing event:..
Edwin Castro
"It really destroyed. It's like they threw a grenade - a bomb, because all the walls have been torn down - two walls torn down and the next side is already leaning. I'm figuring that somebody burnt my house down because I left it intact. There was no pot on, no stove on, no electrical appliances plugged in - so automatically I feel that somebody burnt my house."
Melanie Castro
"It's not only the material things that got to me - my children were crying, like for example, for their things like their little pictures. they are of sentimental values, I mean, you have certain times where you pictures - little things like where your childen were just born. You have a lot values - real sentiments, yo know? So it's like yes you're still with your family but it's a part of us that has gone."
Edwin Castro
"We know, according to eyewitnesses, that the window was blown out, like a dynamite; it just shot out. So I don't know what caused that, so it's really curious. Inspectors of the Fire Department, they came in yesterday along with the police. They inspected the building for an electrical fire, first - It wasn't an electrical fire. The inspectors told us that it's a flamable object that they threw into my house to destroy it like that."
Edwin Castro
"We strongly believe that it's an attack on the Castro family. It is political and that's why we felt - because we don't have any problems without community. Anybody can go there at any time; we're in good standing with our villagers."
"We're begging the public to give us financial assistance or any materials concerned with building back our home, because we need our home; we lost everything. I'm left with only a pair of slippers on my feet. So it's really rough."
The House was not insured and anyone who wants to help the family can call 205-5624.
They have been forced to move in with his mother….
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