When will the land borders re-open? They have been closed for over a
year now. PM Briceno addressed this today in an interview with CTV-3:
Reporter
"When do you foresee that the borders will be opened considering that the
neighbouring countries are not as good as we are when it comes to
COVID-19?"
Hon. John Briceno - Prime Minister
"Well, we have to protect our best interest first and foremost and we know
that there are still problems in Guatemala and Mexico and even us, we also
have to be very careful, I always remind people not because we don't have a
lot of people with COVID it means that COVID has disappeared, it's amongst
us and it flare up at any moment, look at India as an example. One of the
things that we have been discussing is be able to open up the borders and
the land borders safely and use the same protocols we have at the airport
to be able to put it in place at the land borders and basically the
important thing is to be able to make sure everybody takes a COVID test
coming into Belize to ensure as best as we possibly can to ensure that they
are not infected and sick with COVID."
Reporter
"Also saw that you guys have placed a ban on people coming in from India as
well?"
Hon. John Briceno
"We have put a temporary ban on people travelling that have gone to India
from coming into Belize because of the very same issue. We're hoping within
the next few weeks that we could be able to put also the protocols as to
how we can open the land borders safely."
Channel 7