And while that cab driver was robbed and shot, for cabbies on the Caye, life without tourism has robbed them of their main source of income.
One island cabbie today told the San Pedro Sun that with the current lockdown, it's a struggle to keep food on his family's table:
Taxi Driver
"Well in the past 2-3 months back it was very difficult for the Cab drivers to survive, because sometimes we make like 2 trips for the day and sometimes we don't do any. Now with this 14 days they gave us again, sometimes we come out and get nothing, nothing for the table, and for our kids. It's very hard for us Cab drivers, because everything is on lockdown, but still we are trying."
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