Five Days After Hattieville Tragedy, Violence Strikes Again
With public anxiety mounting over rampant crime and brazen killings in Belize, the recent state of emergency has come under sharp scrutiny. Critics argue the measure failed to prevent violence in the very zones it was meant to secure. Just five days after the tragic killing of Jane Urbina and her unborn child in Hattieville, an attack police believe was carried out by perpetrators from Belize City, violence flared again, with two people shot in Lord’s Bank, one of them fatally. But Commissioner of Police Dr. Richard Rosado insists the SOE achieved its core purpose of giving investigators the space to solve crimes. Here’s more on that.
Richard Rosado
Dr. Richard Rosado, Commissioner of Police
“Please appreciate that one of the main objectives of the state of emergency was to allow the investigators to conduct their investigation without any hindrance, and we were able to accomplish that by solving at least four murders.”
Reporter
“So how would a murder on Albert Street be able to happen at the height of Saturday rush? Is that criminals have no fear of interdiction, especially given that there’s always seven police up and down on that street?”
Dr. Richard Rosado
“Let me say that the security and safety of our citizen is our highest priority, and we will not allow a few criminal-minded individual to dictate the security environment of our country. Hence, the reason we have deployed a number of resources to address the situation in the city. In terms of the specific incident you mentioned, criminals would take the opportunity to strike when it present itself. But it is our mandate to ensure that we address and identify and bring them to justice.”
As of now, no arrests have been made for Urbina’s murder.
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