#BTEditorial - Cottage Vale - and the road that Governments forgot
The irrepressible pragmatism of the Barbadian citizen is far too infrequently sharpened into a savage barb that must jab the side of the State, e.g.: “Wunna got Republic but I can’t get back my taxes”. To the citizen, the State’s inertia, incompetence in the provision of basic services cuts them to the core. Every insistence on the adequate supply and even distribution of that for which they have paid up front in the form of taxes on everything from bread to wages is too often met with an assault from a vocal minority that condemns those who ask as mendicant. No one lobbied for, vo...