Today, San Pedro residents haled a virtual protest using their facebook feeds to demand that they come out of lockdown. They jammed the comments section of the stream of the PM's press conference saying they are San Pedro strong.
Now, the island still has a high number of active infections but the PM says they won't be locked down much longer:
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister "I would want to believe that Ambergris Caye is platooning and so I certainly expect that we may be able to lift the quarantine even before it expires and remember that it's coming to an end in any event. When we went to the house all we did was have an extension for 2 weeks. So in my mind there is very little likelihood, its next to impossible that we would be faced with a situation where by the time we open the PGIA on October 1st, San Pedro would be under any form of quarantine."
GDP Contracted 23%; PM Expected Worse
The Prime Minster also discussed the high contraction in the GDP in the second quarter. It was 23%. The PM said he thought it would be more:
The Saga Of The Big Creek Tug
And, the Prime Minister's press conference today ran for two hours and thirty three minutes. It covered a broad range of subjects including the sage of the Big Creek tug - of which 5 crew members came back COVID positive from Honduras. Here's the report:
Reports say a staffer at the polyclinic in that village has also tested positive.
