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Belize Tourism Crime Facts, Shootings, Stabbings, Murder, and Rape

September 19, 2010

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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...

Belize Tourism Crime Facts, Shootings, Stabbings, Murder, and Rape

September 19, 2010

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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.

Belize Tourism Destination Record Murder Record Set | The News is NowPublic.com

September 19, 2010

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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...

Belize Tourism Destination Record: Six Weekend Murders:

September 18, 2010

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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.

Six Weekend Murders: Belize Tourism Destination Record

September 18, 2010

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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...

89th Belize Human Trafficking Victim “Teresa’s Hattieville Story”

September 17, 2010

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Then you are placed out in a holding area to wait to be taken to your new home for the next three months. That is when it starts. The trustees, as they are called, are the long-timers and the lifers in Hattieville. They run much of the work inside Hattieville while the guards sit in their offices with prisoners who have money and influence, pimping money off the prisoners.

89th Belize Human Trafficking Victim Speaks on Hattieville

September 17, 2010

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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 ...

Belize Human Trafficking Victims ???Ficha Bar Girl Lyrics???

September 16, 2010

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My real name is Elvira I had a laugh you wouldn???t forget My street name was Maria I???ll never laugh again He took me from my village With a promise of decent work Drove me across the Chetumal border In the trunk of his father???s Merc I laughed when ...

Ficha Bar Girl Lyrics- Belize Human Trafficking Victims Theme

September 16, 2010

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He took me from my village With a promise of decent work Drove me across the Chetumal border In the trunk of his father's Merc I laughed when I tasted sea-spray As the boat crossed the night black sea Out to the island paradise On the sand of Ambergris Caye

Vivian Trill -Belize Talks Frozen On Human Trafficking

September 10, 2010

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I was encouraged that a high-placed government official had made the initial overture and I agreed to begin discussion on how we could work on common cause to stop easy passage of trafficked women through Belize. Our position regarding the link between human trafficking and forced prostitution had been made more than clear in our online messages. It was also clear that our position drew a lot of its strength from the eyewitness accounts of the more than 100 trafficked girls our organization had hunted and recovered.