And shortly after Wade's body was found, we asked Mayor Bernard Wagner his thoughts on the safety of the canals - which, of course, are uncovered. While he didn't know much about the drowning at the time, he said that he believes it was from a lack of supervision.
Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City
"Again, it's unfortunate that young children most of the times are not supervised and it's a supervision issue. We have had canals from I was growing up. I think this may be one of the first incident I have heard of someone falling in a canal in my entire life. So again it's a one off type but we can't lose the fact that a child died, I believe, the 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, from the mayor's standpoint, that parents need to know where their children are at every given moment in time."
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