And, after that brief respite, back now to hard news. The Prime Minister leaves the country tomorrow. Yes he's leaving in the middle of a very cute juncture in his tenure as Prime Minister. He's going to attend a fundraiser for his wife's charity with the Belizean community in Los Angeles. But he's also going to treat his bad back. The PM has chronic and acute back pain - and he told us today - at this point he'll try anything to get relief:..
Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"There are 3 herniated discs. When I do a tour as I did on the weekend I take a lick, but I don't want people to think that I am trotting this out to try and gain sympathy and it's always open to me to leave office and not have that sort of a worry. If I stay as I am doing then I don't have a right to complain too much, do I and that's how I try to handle it. It's been firing up rather more than usual lately, so I am hoping that I can get some relief from the doctors. They are now telling me about some device than you can implant under the skin that emits some sorts of signals with lead wires to the spine and those signals block your brain from recording pain - all sounds to me very fantastical but at this point I am willing to try anything, so I'll see how it goes when I get over there."
The PM leaves tomorrow - and says he hopes to get an answer from Elvin Penner on his resignation by the time he leaves.
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