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Susan,

Belize City is certainly the crime capital of Belize, but Orange Walk Town and Dangriga are also usually considered to have fairly high crime rates.

Rural areas of the mainland and the islands generally have lower crime rates, though Ambergris Caye, because it has 5,000+ full-time residents and at any one time with tourists and construction workers etc. there can be 10,000 people on the island, you naturally are going to have crime.

Petty thefts, break-ins and drunken fights/ knifings/choppings can be a problem anywhere but only really in Belize City is there a constant issue of personal safety in some neighborhoods.

--Lan Sluder