Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

Recently, I had a hip resurfaced. It's different from a hip replacement because it's done with titanium. I like to think that it's the consequence of riding horses so strenuously, but I fear it's much more mundane and was just early-onset arthritis.

I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

The PUP came into office in 1998 when the public debt of Belize was over $600 million and the economy was at a standstill. When we left office in 2008, ten years later, the debt was higher, but a lot was accomplished: the economy was transformed and the social and physical infrastructure of the country significantly upgraded.

Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.