And switching gears briefly to politics, We asked the Prime Minister if his former Deputy PM, Gaspar Vega, is attempting to make a comeback in Orange Walk North. As we told you, news has emerged of Vega’s renewed interest in UDP politics, and the Prime Minister told us today that at this time, he’s only offered to give limited support. Here’s that conversation:
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister "I don't know that is so, certainly as you all reported on, the last Sunday of the village council elections, Gaspar certainly came out to help in Orange Walk North. I think we had the biggest villages on that Sunday, Trail Farm, San Jose, San Pablo. So from then, it was clear that he was interesting in becoming active in terms of supporting the constituency. You know that the standard bearer who had been chosen, the convention has resigned, but even at the time of those village council elections, the standard bearer hadn't been particularly active and there was another gentleman who acted as a kind of caretaker representative almost. That was the person in particular that Gaspar was helping. Look, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, he's never left the UDP, he has been inactive for these couple of years, doesn't attend house meetings but he is still a UDP. What ever happened in the past, I don't think can ever disqualify him from wanting to assist in a constituency that he has represented for so long. As far as I know, that's exactly what it is and all that it is."
Reporter "No word to you that he has intentions of offering himself for candidacy?"
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow "No sir."
In our next segment, we’ll have clips from the 80-minute press conference that the Prime Minister held to discuss Government’s responses to the drought with relief measures for farmers. It’s the worst drought in over 30 years and their collective losses are estimated in the 10s of millions of dollars.
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