Central Bank’s second quarter review is scheduled for 15 July 2014. A visit to the Central Bank website states, “UPCOMING EVENTS, July 15: Release of Analysis of Barbados’ Economic Performance for the first six months of 2014 Time: 2:00 p.m.” BU has been advised that the Central Bank has cancelled the news conference which has become a standard feature of the Governor Worrell’s quarterly review of Barbados’ economic performance.
Surely if there was a time our leaders are required to communicate with Barbadians, and in particular the Governor of the Central Bank, now is the perfect time. The Governor to his credit has faced the music during a challenging economic period and his message has become tired and taken on a political spiel. But what a time to cancel a news conference!
The vacuum that will be created if the cancellation is enforced is likely to force more speculation – is this a ploy to avoid questions about the Muni Tax? Is it a spill over caused by the spat with the Nation newspaper? The moribund media of Barbados will take another black eye in stride of this we are sure.
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