2,500 First Time Offenders Gets Clean Criminal Records

Prime Minister John Briceño announced during Friday’s House meeting that 2,500 first-time offenders convicted of COVID-19 and cannabis possession offenses will have their criminal records cleared. This change takes effect immediately.

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“I am pleased to report that over two thousand five hundred first time offenders, persons having a conviction for a COVID-19 offense or possession of cannabis, but have no other criminal offense, will have the fines they were ordered to be pay be remitted and their criminal record expunged for it to be a thing of the past. It is being gazette this morning by achievement of remissions that were signed by her excellency the governor general on the advice of my government. This was done in fulfillment of my government’s commitment to reforming the justice system and the criminal justice system we continue to deliver on Plan Belize.”