Excerpt from an Interview with a Gang Executive that Inspired the Shaping of

the Title of the Report: Like Bush Fire A Study In Male Participation And
Violence In Urban Belize.

“Boss it’s all about the Gs that we love but they don’t love us back…You know what Gs mean
right? It’s about money but it’s more than that. Money is not we ballie; you know that. Sometimes
I go out to hustle and nothing. I have goals like everybody else and I try hard in school to get the
tools to achieve them legally. I did very well and got my CXCs and all that but that did not
guarantee me anything. The last time I went to look fu wahn job they employ a girl over me ‘cause
I don’t have a punani; so I use what I have access to – guns and gang-banging. Yes I am the brain
of the {gang name omitted}. Yes, that is what they leave for my gender! A sociologist, I think ih
name is Merton, yes, well he says, ‘If by conforming you fail it is natural that you are going to
innovate as one option of survival.’