Corruption index score down for third consecutive year
The Bahamas’ score has steadily declined since 2018 Matt Aubry.
The Bahamas’ score on the 2020 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) dropped one notch, which reveals the country’s score has declined on the index since 2018.
The Bahamas’ score moved from 66 to 65 in 2018, to 64 in 2019, to 63 on the 2020 index.
This country’s CPI score remains one of the best in the Caribbean, second only to Barbados, which has a score of 64 and a rank of 29.
Executive Director of the Organization for Responsible Governance (ORG) Matt Aubry old
Guardian Business yesterday that the tool to improve The Bahamas’ CPI score has been tabled in Parliament since 2017, but not passed.
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The Bahamas’ score on the 2020 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) dropped one notch, which reveals the country’s score has declined on the index since 2018.
The Bahamas’ score moved from 66 to 65 in 2018, to 64 in 2019, to 63 on the 2020 index.
This country’s CPI score remains one of the best in the Caribbean, second only to Barbados, which has a score of 64 and a rank of 29.
Executive Director of the Organization for Responsible Governance (ORG) Matt Aubry old
Guardian Business yesterday that the tool to improve The Bahamas’ CPI score has been tabled in Parliament since 2017, but not passed.
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A governance reformer is warning that the latest diabolical BGCSE exam results will further undermine efforts to grow the Bahamian economy at the faster pace needed to recover from COVID-19.
Robert Myers, the Organisation for Responsible Governance s (ORG) principal, told Tribune Business that failing to develop a productive workforce will impair the international competitiveness of both Bahamian businesses and the wider economy unless drastic improvement is seen.
Acknowledging that the remote learning forced by the pandemic had only worsened the challenges faced by the educational system, Mr Myers said: The challenge with this diabolical result is that there are, yet again, more young adults now in the job market who are under-educated and woefully unemployable as they do not possess the basic skills, soft skills and/or specific skills to be of value to employers.
Economist s concerns on higher refinancing rates Little progress on multi-billion public pension woe
By NEIL HARTNELL
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The Government was yesterday warned that talk is cheap when it comes to The Bahamas mounting fiscal and economic woes, as governance reformers demanded: Let s see some action.
Robert Myers, the Organisation for Responsible Governance s principal, told Tribune Business we ve heard it all before with the Government s Fiscal Strategy Report laying out little that was new in terms of the country s problems or a strategy for addressing both GDP growth and the expanding national debt and fiscal deficit. They ve kicked that can down the road as far as they can, he said of a national debt that is projected to hit the $10.4bn mark by mid-2022. I would say talk is cheap. Let s see action. We ve heard it all before. Start making it happen.