The Placencia Casino, Maya Beach, Stann Creek, Belize. 1,714 likes 4 talking about this 49 were here. The Placencia Casino will remain intimate in feel within the world-class facility. See this casino Belize is a country of Central America located between Mexico and Guatemala. Its coasts are bathed by the Caribbean Sea. The capital of the country is Belmopan and its population is estimated at almost 333,000. Maya Beach is 3.8 km from the resort, while False Caye is 4.3 km away. The beach is just 250 metres from the accommodation. This luxury hotel is set not far from The Casino at Placencia.

Aug 8, 2019

Santa Cruz Resident Fatally Stabbed During Altercation at Placencia Hotel and Casino

In the peninsula, police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a Santa Cruz resident. The forty-four-year-old was at the Placencia Hotel and Casino along with two of his brothers when he was stabbed. An argument started inside the casino and escalated when the men went outside the premises. Twenty-four-year-old Everaldo Samayoa was stabbed and died, while his sibling Maron survived the incident. A third person in the confrontation, security guard Darwin Castillo, has been arrested by the police. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo reports.

Hipolito Novelo, Reporting

Twenty-four-year-old Everaldo Samayoa is dead tonight and the man who allegedly caused his untimely demise, thirty-five-year-old Darwin Castillo is behind bars. Samayoa was fatally stabbed at around one-thirty this morning while at the Placencia Hotel and Casino along the Placencia strip. According to investigators, Samayoa along with two of his brothers including Marlon who was stabbed in his back was involved in a brawl with Castillo, a security officer at the establishment.

ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch

“What we know is that those persons were inside the casino consuming alcohol and whilst leaving they were approached by the security who spoke to them in relations to certain rules. As a result, that seemingly caused those persons to get upset where they got into an altercation and security was pushed down. This however did not end that as apparently the altercation continued to the back of the building which resulted in the security receiving a chop wound or a cut wound to the left arm whilst Everaldo Samayoa obviously received a stab wound to the right ribcage and was transported to the Southern Regional Hospital where he later died while undergoing treatment.”

During the fight, a knife was produced. Castillo received a cut to his left arm which doctors classified as ‘wounding’. At this point, the matter is being treated as a death investigation.

Joseph Myvett

ACP Joseph Myvett

“One person is in custody whilst the police is conducting this investigation.”

Andrea Polanco

Placencia Belize Map

“What direction are you conducting this investigation from? Is it just a death investigation at this point?”

ACP Joseph Myvett

“Yes, it is a death investigation at this point in time.”

Andrea Polanco

“So do we know who inflicted the fatal stab wound?”

ACP Joseph Myvett

“That is what we are trying to ascertain at this point in time.”

Andrea Polanco

“Are you able to say whether these men, the Samayoa brothers that is, were under the influence of alcohol?”

ACP Joseph Myvett

“Well they were consuming alcohol. That is what I can say.”

Andrea Polanco

“So now the security guard, I understand that he has been released from the hospital, are you able to say if he has been detained?”

La Placencia Belize

ACP Joseph Myvett

“Well the police is talking to him as well as several other persons.”

At the scene, police found a machete measuring one and a half foot believe to have been introduced by one of the brothers.

ACP Joseph Myvett

“The police did find a machete, however, there seem to have not been any blood stains on the machete but it was still retained as part of the investigation.”

Andrea Polanco

Placencia Hotels

“So you believe that there should be or still was another weapon involved?”

ACP Joseph Myvett

Placencia Belize Hotels

“Yes we do believe so.”

Andrea Polanco

“So you know to whom that weapon belonged?”

ACP Joseph Myvett

“At this point in time no as this incident has just occurred after one this morning. Since then the police have been at the investigation.”

Reporting for News Five, I am Hipolito Novelo.

Placencia Belize Casino

For the casino lover Belize has limited facilities, but they can be a welcome break from too much sea and sand, or from the cloistered cruise ship casinos. The biggest is at the Princess Hotel and Casino in Belize City. It’s the nearest you will get to a Las Vegas style casino in this part of Central America. The Princess is located on the waterfront Princess Margaret Drive, just off Barracks Road. The casino is on the right as you enter the lobby. It’s glitzy, well decorated and laid out with faux marble floors.

The property is owned by the Turkey-based Princess Hotels and Casinos Group. It was originally owned and operated by the Ramada Hotel Group. In April 2014 it came full circle around when it was officially announced in Belize that the casino has once again joined the Ramada Group, and is now officially renamed the Ramada Belize City Princess. This is not a change of ownership, but merely a franchise re-branding aimed at attracting more tourists from North America.

This small casino has three table games – American Roulette, Black Jack and Caribbean Stud Poker and three hundred slot machines. Belizeans are fanatics about craps but you will not find these at the Princess. Gamblers know this is the one game where the player stands an even chance against the house. The casino has recently introduced a two-day Poker Tournament, dubbed Texas Hold-em held every March.

The Princes Casino is well maintained, clean, fully air-conditioned and has free drinks to help you get warmed up for a night of gambling. The country has a sizable Chinese community due to lax immigration policies favoring Asians, and this is often reflected in the casino’s main clientele.

The casino opens at noon and the slot machines jingle until 4 in the morning. There is even a small show featuring dancing Russian girls every night (we’re not making this up!). Belizeans are not heavy gamblers – but they are picking up fast. You will find a mixed clientele most days – Chinese, Belizeans, and Central Americans – including some attractive young women idly playing the slot machines. For some unknown reason the few times we ventured into the casino there were almost no tourists. The area around this casino is not safe for walking around – day or night. Due to a proliferation of bars and discotheques in the area, thieves and muggers are common. Taxi drivers have been described as “pushy. If you must go we would suggest you stay elsewhere and catch a cab of your choice to the casino and back, and be very sober.

As a hotel and restaurant this casino is severely lacking. The staff is friendly but the end product is heavily criticized on most traveler’s forums. As for the casino, here is a typical comment:

“Interested in gambling? If you play in the States, get ready for some differences! #1: Checking in with the entrance before entering (including your passport and a photo shot). #2: figuring out which slots take BZ versus U.S. and which cashier to change which currency at #3 figuring out the rules at the Blackjack table….here is a preview: the shoot is loaded with at least 5 decks. Dealer deals everyone 2 cards except him/her self (only 1 card up). You can bet on other players hands #4 you can’t bet an odd number…e.g. I tried to bet my $5 chip and add the $2.50 to the bet and wasn’t allowed to. Not a big deal, but just be ready to make some adjustments. ”

On Wednesday most of the Russian dancers are bused 80 miles away to the small town of San Ignacio where there is a miniature Princess Casino located next to the San Ignacio Hotel up the hill from the Fire Station. There they do a couple of shows to entice locals and tourists in that area.

Placencia Beach Belize

As for the rest of the country – casino action is steadily downhill from there. You can find “gaming rooms” in almost any city and town throughout Belize. Most of these are aimed at locals. They tend to be run-down and seedy, and are often attached or actually inside local Chinese greasy spoons. They are not recommended for visitors. Most of the slot machines are very old and some locals claim, rigged.

Ambergris Caye has a couple of mini-casinos, mostly a couple dozen slot machines and sometimes games of poker.

In the north of the country, at the Corozal Free Zone, you will find several casinos aimed at luring Mexicans from the border town of Chetumal, but which are also patronized by some Belizeans in the area. These casinos are basically replicas of the Ramada Belize City Princess with odds heavily loaded in favor of the casino and also featuring Russian, Brazilian and Colombian “dancers”. The largest of these is the Las Vegas Casino, run by a U.S. immigrant family.. A subsidiary of the Ramada Belize City Princess Casino there, was recently shuttered, allegedly to move operations to Chetumal, Mexico to join in the fray of recent legislation allowing the operation of casinos in Quintana Roo, Mexico.