Submitted by Tee White On 17 May, an IMF team led by Bert van Selm, a Dutch economist and senior IMF functionary, held a press conference in Barbados’ capital, Bridgetown. At this, they announced their findings, after a 10 day review of the country’s implementation of its IMF approved austerity programme, the Barbados’ Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) plan. A
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About ten years ago, CLICO was unable to meet its obligations to its over 20,000 policy-holders. Fortunately, CLICO had assets which could be sold and equitably distributed to policy-holders. They could then sue the government for any short-fall for its failure to properly regulate the company. That was the advice given to policy-holders, but they rejected it and chose to
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Submitted by Tee White After nearly 400 years plundering wealth from countries in every corner of the world, in 2019, the United Kingdom government is unable to ensure that all its citizens have access to such a basic human right as adequate food. See the report below from CNN. In November last year, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme
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Submitted by Kemar Stuart, Bsc Banking and Finance (undergraduate), University of the West Indies. Prepared For Presentation at the , Democratic Labour Party, Astor B. Watts, Lunch Time Lecture, May 2019 The digitization process of Government is an initiative which the Barbadian community should embrace it may provide savings from duplication of processes within the civil service however this will
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Barbados has been hugely successful in attracting new airlift and all our major markets have largely benefited, most notably the United States. The new German Wings upcoming three flights each week from Frankfurt hopefully will dramatically increase our Continental European visitors. Not just from Germany, but from all the bordering countries that enjoy seamless rail connections to the adjacent Frankfurt
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Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nighs. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.” -Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2, 190-195 One of the enduring criticisms of the Mia Mottley government which dovetail those about austerity measures implemented has been the appointment
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An own goal is when a sports team scores a goal for the opposing team, by sending the ball into their own goal. The BLP has scored many unnecessary own goals during their first year in Government, and are showing no signs of correcting this habit. Coincidentally, during the same time, we have been forced to pay significantly more taxes.
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