And while Oscar Cornel's family couldn't speak with us today, CTV3 in Orange Walk did speak to his colleague Patti Witzil. Witzil is the Chairlady of the village council of which Cornell was an elected member. She knew him well, as they had worked on many community projects together. This afternoon she lamented the many plans for the future of the village that the council must now carry out without a vital member of their team. Here's the translation of her interview:
Patty Witzel, Chairlady Trial Farm Village Council
"Yesterday around midnight his father called me and he gave me the sad news that Oscar had disappeared in the sea because he works out there but we didn't have any news from him yet. And this morning the same they were still looking for him, we were hopeful that we'd find him alive but unfortunately, it couldn't be that way. They found him dead."
"He came in we all came in very excited, we were a new team with lots of hopes and he was very happy because we had lots of plans."
"Now trial farm is mourning because he was a big part of our village almost everyone from trial farm knew him and now we're all in mourning and his family is devastated along with us because one of our council members is gone without even being with us for a year and it's a great loss and we're sad because of it."
In a Facebook post today, Ramon Cervantez, the PUP standard-bearer for Orange Walk North, reminisced, "You were always a good friend to all, a hard-working councilor of the Trial Farm Village Council…I never saw you angry, or unwilling or frustrated. You were always there to make things happen for Trial Farm." End quote.
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