Government Employee Charged for Stealing 43 Chromebooks

A government employee is in hot water, accused of stealing forty-three Chromebooks from the Government Bookstore on Saint Joseph Street back in February. A police investigation led to the discovery of nine of the devices all the way in Orange Walk. This morning, Ezbert Felix Ramclam Junior, also known as ‘Suga,’ a warehouse manager for the G.O.B., was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on Coney Drive on a single charge of theft. The allegations state that between February eighteenth and February twenty-eighth, 2025, in Belize City, Ramclam dishonestly appropriated forty-three laptops valued at thirty-three thousand, eight hundred and sixty-two dollars, belonging to the Government of Belize. Represented by attorney Ronnell Gonzalez, Ramclam Junior pleaded not guilty to the charge. With no objection to bail, the magistrate granted it at three thousand dollars, plus one surety of the same amount, or two sureties of one thousand, five hundred dollars each, which he met. Ramclam Junior is due back in court on June fourth, 2025. On Saturday, March twenty-ninth, 2025, Ingrid Acosta, a project coordinator at the Project Execution Unit in the Ministry of Education in Belmopan, reported to the Crimes Investigation Branch that unauthorized persons had removed forty-three Chromebooks from a storage facility at the Government Bookstore compound in Belize City between February nineteenth and February twenty-eighth, 2025. The C.I.B. investigated and on Wednesday, April second, police recovered three of the devices in San Lorenzo Housing Site in Orange Walk Town. Further investigation led to the discovery of five more Lenovo Chromebooks, confirmed to have been stolen from the Government Bookstore’s warehouse. The laptops were taken to Belize City and handed over to the police. As part of the investigation, police recorded several statements from individuals in Belize City and Orange Walk. One report from a fifty-nine-year-old entrepreneur in Orange Walk stated that a man known as ‘Suga,’ who works at the Government Bookstore, sold him nine Chromebooks in February 2025. Consequently, Ramclam was detained on Monday, April seventh, 2025, and charged with theft on Tuesday, April eighth, 2025.