At the root of many problems plaguing Barbados and the greater Caribbean is the fact that there are “many people not qualified to be in a range of key positions in both the public and private sectors”. This reality is having a silent stifling affect on progress in many public and private organizations due to a lack of KNOW HOW and INNOVATIVE thinking.

If we as a nation continue this “old school cronyism”, “out of date”, ineffective manner of placing unqualified people in key positions we will not be able to effectively meet many of our national public and private section objectives in these troubling economic times.  In the public sector we see under performing career government workers just simply taking up space and wasting government dollars while eager ready to work young folks are coming out of school and can’t find a job.   In the public sector we see under performing managers who got their positions based on who they knew or how many degrees they have on a wall versus what they could do to grow business and innovate, while eager bright young staff wait in the corporate “pick” trenches for the opportunity to shine.

At the end of the day if this internal brain drain continues we will see Barbados and the region as a whole continue to lose many of our best and brighter young minds to the US, UK, and Canada at an economic  time when we need them the most.