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    President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei tests positive with COVID-19

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    Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei speaks during a news conference in Guatemala City
    : Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei speaks during a news conference with Michael Kozak (not pictured), acting assistant secretary for U.S. State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, in Guatemala City, Guatemala February 7, 2020. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria

    The leader of the central American country told a local radio station he feels well despite having an underlying health condition. He made the announcement as the country lifted several lockdown measures.

    The 64-year-old president, who has multiple sclerosis and uses canes to walk, said he was feeling well.

    He plans to address the nation later on Friday.

    Local news outlet Prensa Libre tweeted a government statement, saying the president would monitor his health and continue his functions from isolation.

    President Donald Trump And First lady Test Positive With Covid-19

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    President Donald Trump And First lady Test Positive With Covid-19 Wow
    President Donald Trump And First lady Test Positive With Covid-19 Wow

    ‘We will get through this together,’ Trump said after testing positive for virus

    The White House said Fri that President Donald Trump had been suffering “mild signs and symptoms” of COVID-19, adding that he has been in good spirits and working within his family quarters although announcement of his sickness threw the united states deeper into uncertainty only a month before the presidential election.

    The revelation came in a Trump tweet about 1 a.m. after he previously returned from a political fundraiser without informing the crowd he had been exposed to an aide with the condition that has killed more than 205,000 People in America and more when compared to a million people worldwide.

    1st lady Melania Trump furthermore also tested positive, the president said, and many others in the White HOuse have, as well, prompting concern at the White House as well as Trump himself may have spread the virus. Trumps’ son Barron, who lives at the White House, tested negative for Covid-19.

    Trump spent most of the year downplaying the risk of the virus, rarely wearing the protective mask and urging states and cities to “reopen” and reduce or even eliminate shutdown guidelines.

    Both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have tested negative, their campaign said. Vice President Mike Pence tested negative for the virus

    Trump’s Supreme Courtroom nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who was simply with him and many more on Saturday and contains been on Capitol Hill ending up in lawmakers, also tested negative, the White House said.

    Trump’s diagnosis was certain to truly have a destabilizing effect inside Washington and all over the world, raising questions about how exactly far the virus had pass on through the highest degree of the U.S. government. Hrs before Trump introduced he previously contracted the  virus, the White house said a top aide individual who had traveled with him through the 7 days had tested positive.

    “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested good for COVID-19. We shall start our quarantine and healing process instantly,” Trump tweeted right before 1 a.m. “We shall complete this TOGETHER!”

    Trump has been considering how he could address the country or otherwise talk to the American people Fri, the official added.

    The diagnosis marks a devastating blow for a president who has been trying desperately to convince the American general public that the worst of the pandemic is behind. It’ll likely drive him off the campaign trail just several weeks prior to the election and places his participation in the next presidential debate, planned for Oct. 15 in Miami, into question.

    Belize Celebrates Independence Day

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    Belize independence
    Belize independence

    Belize has been granted independence on 21 September 1981. Guatemala refused to identify the brand new nation due to its longstanding territorial dispute with the British colony, claiming that Belize belonged to Guatemala. About 1,500 UK troops remained in Belize to prevent any feasible incursions.

    With Price at the helm, the PUP won all national elections till 1984. For that election, the initial nationwide election after independence, the PUP has been defeated by the United Democratic Party (UDP). UDP leader Manuel Esquivel replaced Price as the Prime minister, with Price himself suddenly dropping his own House seat to an UDP contender. The PUP under Price returned to power following elections in 1989. The next year the UK announced that it would end its armed service involvement in Belize, and the RAF Harrier detachment had been withdrawn within 12 months, having remained stationed in country constantly since its deployment had become long term in Belize since 1980. British soldiers were withdrawn in 1994, however the United Kingdom left an military training team to help with the recently created Belize Defence Force.

    The UDP regained power in the 1993 national election, and Esquivel became prime minister for another time. Soon later on, Esquivel introduced the suspension of a pact with Guatemala during Price’s tenure, declaring Price had made way too many concessions to get Guatemalan acknowledgement. The pact could have curtailed the 130-year-aged border dispute between two countries. Border tensions continuing in to the early 2000s, even though two nations cooperated in the areas.

    The PUP won a landslide victory in the 1998 national elections, and PUP innovator Said Musa was sworn in as prime minister. In the 2003 elections the PUP maintained its majority, and Musa continued as prime minister. He pledged to fix issues in the underdeveloped and mostly inaccessible southern section of Belize.

    In 2005, Belize was area of unrest due to discontent with the PUP government, including tax increases in the nationwide budget. On 8 February 2008, Dean Barrow was sworn in as the Prime minister after his party received a landslide victory in the general elections. Barrow and the UDP had been re-elected in 2012 with a substantially smaller majority. Barrow carried the UDP to a 3rd consecutive general election victory in November 2015, growing the party’s amount of chairs from 17 to 19. Nevertheless, he mentioned the election will be his final as party head and preparations are under way for the UDP to elect his successor.

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