Heading now to northern Belize.
Guinea Grass villagers continued their borderline protest this
afternoon. As we showed you yesterday, a group of villagers went right
up to the police check point - which is now the village boundary to
demand that some provisions be made for desperate villagers.
That village was put under COVID lockdown for two weeks, and that has
now been extended by another two weeks. The protestors today told CTV-3
that it's too much - and they desperately need intervention and some
breathing room. Here's one account of fatigue with authorities,
including their village chairman:
Bernaldino Camara - Protestor
"We're out here again like we promised because no one in the government,
referring to our area rep or to Don Pedro Serrano. You have evidence that
we said that whatever information received as an answer should be directed
towards us. What I understand that what they did is direct it toward the
chairman. And from where I'm standing the chairman hasn't said anything to
me. It's us that are showing our faces for everyone in our village we're
Belizeans and as you can see the flag represents everything that we are
here there are people that are soldiers, people who are educators, people
who are teachers, coastguard, there are business people and our village is
a very productive village and what we're feeling right now is that they are
not responding in the way that we hoped as villagers. I personally want a
petition that if Mr. Chester Williams the Commissioner of Police, at least
if he wants this to stop, that he allows two of us to go where we need to
go to fill out a form to stage a more formal protest and bring more people.
Because what we want is like what our friend said we need to work the
government can't maintain us it's obvious and it's clear."
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