PM Donates $50,000 To His Church

Prime Minister Gaston Browne has donated fifty thousand dollars towards the work of the St. John’s Wesleyan Holiness Church on Bishopgate Street.
A release from the Prime Minister’s office says the donation was made to mark Browne’s 50^th birthday today.
The release says he has been attending the Wesleyan Holiness Church on Sunday for his entire life.
Browne gave a testimony at the church of his life growing up as a child in the Point and Villa communities, saying he had three near death experiences and spoke of struggling to live with a single parent and at times penniless grandmother.
He says his biggest challenge was abject poverty – having grown up in a home without electricity, water, furnishings or toilet facilities and being in very dire circumstances and often having nothing to eat – according to the statement from the prime minister’s office.
The prime minister told church members he had a deadbeat father and after his mom became mentally ill, he at age nine and his sister at age eight, had to work to survive.
He says his sister became a child maid to get a meal to survive and he became the handyman for the community to earn a few cents daily in order to survive.
He said that despite their circumstance he and his sister never engaged in any immoral or illicit activities.