Security & Strategic Review - January 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)

Belizeans seem unsure about how to assess the public security situation over the past year. Some celebrate the fact that the country’s homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was the third-lowest since 2008 while others note that the number of homicide cases was 22% higher than in 2013 — a year when Belize was able to boast, inaccurately, that it was the only country in Central America to record a falling homicide rate. Statistics show steady escalation since 1993.