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April 18, 2021 Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados Today Inc. The Government Estimates exercise was recently completed and it was revealing for several reasons. Of note, and as I highlighted in my previous column; high public debt ($12,814,692,429) and seeming lack of accountability or consequences for inadequate policy, inadequate implementation and inadequate follow-through. With such high levels of public debt, part of accountability and good governance is not only about, for example, freedom of information act, anti-corruption law, term limits for a Prime Minister, but also how a government spends tax dollars and a government’s priorities are spending borrowed money, as a loan today is a tax rise tomorrow. There is no spin that makes that fact go away.

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