One man in full support of those protocols is PM Briceno.
And, this afternoon he told his Government Press Office that the major push behind Cabinet's decision to re-open casinos was the large number of Belizeans that the establishments employ.
He says that those numbers are in the hundreds.
Hon. John Briceno, Prime Minister
"We are slowly, gradually, cautiously reopening the country and we're going step by step, we need to get people back to work. We have COVID under control and let's pray that we keep it that way, but people have to go back to work and so the casinos employee hundreds of people. And so, we felt as a cabinet that it is time to be able to allow them to open under strict safety guidelines and standards: social distancing, mask wearing and everything that goes along with that."
