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Today Sr. Superintendent Hilberto Romero told us that ahead of her disappearance Alison MacKenzie had been drinking.

Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, NCIB
"On Saturday police responded to a report at Rendevous Caye situated at 21 miles east of Belize City where Paige Roth reported his girlfriend Alison MacKenzie, 43 years old, missing information is that they arrived on the island on Friday and were camped in tents and she was last seen walking around the island around 10 pm. On Saturday around 6 am Paige Roth reported that when he woke up he could not find his girlfriend and he made this report to the boat captain who then conducted a search of the island and she was not found. Information is that she was drinking on Friday night."

"They were in Caye Caulker prior to arriving at Rendevous Caye and they were at Rendevous Caye on Friday. So they were at Caye Caulker they departed on a tour from there."

Cherisse Halsall:
"Who was the tour Company?"

Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero
"Raggamuffin Tours."

"Well these tours operate independently and that is a part of what they provide in those tours they camp on those islands and they stay there for the night. I'm not sure what security measures they have in place but these are isolated islands and they remain there on their own."

"Her personal belongings were found on the island. There is nothing to suggest that any craft or anything is missing at this time."

"Investigators are on the island and searches are being conducted to find out what are the circumstances that led to her disappearance. At this time there's not much to go on and investigators are working on the case."

Cherisse Halsall:
"Sir, is Mr Roth a suspect in her disappearance at this time?"

Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero
"I will not call him a suspect. We are conducting an investigation and as we gather the information we will try to ascertain what transpired."

"She came to Belize in December and was to stay up until the month of May 2020."

"The police along with the coast guard will continue with their searches in that general area and if the search needs to be expanded then that will be done during the course of today to see if anything is found."

Allison Mcenzie's sister says she had never seen her drunk a day in her life and she is appealing to the other 13 passengers who must have seen something. We spoke to her via phone in Arizona today:..

Voice of: Jodie Dixon, sister of Alison MacKenzie
"I wish we knew something, but I think we know exactly what you all know - she went on a tour to go snorkeling on a little island and in the morning she was gone."

Reporter
"Belizean police were saying this morning that her fellow passengers says that she was intoxicated that night. Is that something strange to hear?"

Voice of: Jodie Dixon
"Yes, because my sister didn't typically drink. We've been around each other our whole entire life and she was not a drinker. I don't know, she was on a cruise on vacation and to my knowledge I talk to the company and they serve like a run punch or something. At the end of the day I don't know. I wasn't there. It's not typical, like it doesn't say to me oh gosh she was drinking, it's just I don't know. I will say it's not like her to be intoxicated. Maybe have a drink, but to be intoxicated, I've never seen her drunk in my life. When I talk to Raggamuffin Tours there was a woman that I spoke to on the phone her name was Charlie and she told me that the captain of the tour was the last person to see my sister - that she was walking on the beach after everybody had gone to bed, which is not unusual. She is absolutely love the beach. She was afraid to swim in the ocean, but she loved the beach and and this is what the tour lady told me, not the police and not Paige - she said that the captain walker her back over to her tent and told her that she shouldnt be out at night and he made sure she got back in her tent, so and that was suposedly like 2:30 in the morning. So a report about 10pm at night is confusing to me."

"What I really want to say is everything she wrote to me since she's been there because she's been there over a month, she says your country is absolutely beautiful and she was having a very good time and she was very happy there."

"What our family would like is just anybody who was on the island if you have information about her state of mind at the time. The tour company says that she had a very beautiful day snorkeling and that she was very nice to everybody and polite and helpful and she was getting on great with everybody and that everybody like her. So somebody had to have had communication with her, but I don't know why nobody is speaking up, like why isn't one of those other 15 people that was on that tour - what are they saying, what are their thoughts, what did they think happened?"

Late this afternoon, R?gg?muff?n ??ur? L?m?t?d issued a statement assuring the public that they are cooperating fully with both police investigations and the search efforts being made by Alison MacKenzie's family. The company also stated that they are d???l? d??tr????d ?nd ??n??rn?d ?? t? th? wh?r??b?ut? ?nd w?ll-b??ng ?f ?l???n ???k?nz??.

Alison's Mother also released a statement via Facebook this morning, she says she wants her daughter back and is pleading for anyone who knows anything to contact her. Family members are coming to Belize to assist in the search.