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Of COVID Scares and Homecomings
posted (May 20, 2020)
And while Linda Blease and the other Belizeans on board the Rhapsody of the Seas have just a few days to fill their repatriation forms they are likely to be among the first to make a legal returns to our shores.

And in another part of yesterday's interview, Blease told us what it was like living with the knowledge that she was banned from Belize's borders between March 23rd and last week Friday May 15th.

Linda Blease, Belizean stuck on ship
"At one point they were adding different things, different laws and stuff like that. At one point it was even a crime to be Belizean. If I had gotten interviewed around that time I would have felt a type of way, but I understand the precautionary measures they were putting to try and protect Belizeans, but you can't help but feel a type of way. I just look on it like I'm just trying to get home."

Reporter
"What about those 2 countries; Panama and some other country that didn't accept their people. How do people react to not being accepted at home?"

Linda Blease, Belizean stuck on ship
"It's like a type of anguish type of thing. You know you ae expecting to get home and you get turn back type of thing, but I think Colombia or Panama one of them say that they were not allowing cruise ships, but they could actually fly them home. So what they are doing to one of them is take them to Barbados and from there they will catch a flight home and then get accepted."

The Rhapsody of the Seas is expected to dock in Belize this Saturday, May 23rd.

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