Belize Crime Rates and Public Opinion Crime is one of Belize???s major problems, and it is dangerously on the rise. The most common crime is theft and it can come in a variety of forms including armed robbery, purse snatching, and pick pocketing. Be...
September 19, 2010
According to NationMaster.com, human trafficking has become a major transnational issue for Belize including the trafficking of men, women, and children for both labor and sexual exploitation. Trafficking in Belize has become easy because of the lack of monitoring their borders with their neighboring countries including Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
September 19, 2010
There is no bottom to the abyss to which crime has plunged. Six persons were murdered in the weekend???s wave of terror; four in the city and two in the west. How do you top this new record? There is yet no official comment, but there is general pub...
September 18, 2010
There is yet no official comment, but there is general public outrage at the carnage, and we start in the Old Capital where police presence was highly visible for Saturday’s carnival, but in a period of three hours beginning at the crack of dawn on Sunday, hell broke loose and when it was over, four were dead between the ages of eight and sixty years.
September 18, 2010
Victim's a Child Lost There is no bottom to the abyss to which crime has plunged. Six persons were murdered in the weekend???s wave of terror; four in the city and two in the west. How do you top this new record? There is yet no official comment, bu...
September 17, 2010
A dump of a prison inside and out I am an Honduran national who was taken to Belize when I was 17 on a promise of work and hope for my family. Most of the stories you hear about women like me are about how we are voluntary prostitutes and that we ...
September 19, 2010
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