The report is misleading in its sweeping statement about murders in San Pedro.
Several killings occurred in the bush way up by Mexico. This is drug related and geographically well out of the town and residential areas.
The other crimes are turf related, or the result of extreme intoxication and fights erupting as a result.
What we need to be concerned about is this disregard for ones own quality of life. Belizean society has long held life sacred. The incursion of drugs, the enslavement of foreign women into the sex trade and the cultures that come with these businesses must be a focus of law enforcement, and we as citizens cannot turn a blind eye to activities of this sort when we observe them.