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The US owns the world’s reserve currency which explains why they can accrue trillions in debt. The issue for Barbados is the debt burden we carry, the prospect of increasing said debt given the structure of the economy for the medium considering food and oil imports. As John A keeps pointing out we have not seen current plans to suggest fundamentally the domestic economy will change. LAst week Persaud was in the news crying about banks in Barbados not lending and we have to find non traditional lenders. It iOS ludicrous therefore to compare the US approaches to managing the economy to Barba...

Social Share Answer the cries for mercy and provide water to the hundreds of residents in need, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has told the Barbados Water Authority (BWA). “We heard these cries during the prolonged drought. We heard these cries for water at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, now the same cries are being heard as the ash descended from the La Soufriere volcano on Barbados. “How much longer must access to potable water be the bottleneck restraining the development of this country?” asked Andre Worrell, the DLP vice president and spokesperson on agriculture and the...

‘Use imagination, move away from tourism dependency’ Article by February 2, 2021 Dependency on tourism is an issue that must be addressed with “haste and imagination” if Barbados is to ever survive future economic shocks, caused by significant global events, the Democratic Labour Party’s (DLP) leader has said. During her party’s virtual town hall discussion on the economy, held on Sunday, DLP president Verla DePeiza referred to the latest Central Bank report which noted a 90 per cent fall in long-stay visitor arrivals over the last three quarters of 2020, DePei...

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