Tensions at Western Border as Guatemalan Truckers Temporarily Block Bridge

Tensions ran high this morning across the western border, in Melchor de Mencos, where Guatemalan drivers blocked the bridge. While the borders remain close, cargo is allowed into the country.  Since the crisis started, the process is that routinely, a nurse would check the drivers for COVID-19 symptoms, if there are none then the drivers would be allowed across the border to make delivery and pick up goods. Today, however, for hours, the trucks were given the green light, but not the drivers. We are told that the truck drivers were asked to remain at the border while a local driver takes control of the truck and transport the goods into Belize. So the Guatemalans truckers became upset with the new system and blocked the bridge preventing even those who were coming here to transport goods from Spanish Lookout into Guatemala.  The protest was brief, however, as the Ministry of Immigration took control of the situation and resolved it by letting the drivers to enter.