In one of his first public engagements since being appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr Kevin Greenidge shone a spotlight on the bothersome question of regional air travel.
The occasion was the Central Bank’s public engagement discussion known as the Caribbean Economic Forum, staged on Wednesday and broadcast across the region and through the Central Bank’s various social
Barbados’ last Central Bank governor Mr Cleviston Haynes said his formal goodbyes on the weekend, ending more than four decades at the country’s lead financial institution.Not a man known for controversy, at his final departure he was his usual straightforward but equally diplomatic self, when he called on the country’s commercial banks to “do better”. He was at the time also lamenting the fact that he walks away from the Church Village, Bridgetown institution with “unfinished business”.There may be the suggestion by some that the former governor should have put more bite in his bark when he held the highest office at the Central Bank of Barbados which is the regulator of commercial banks.“Opening accounts is proving increasingly, and, I would suggest, unnecessarily difficult, often exceeding the expectations of the regulator which simply expects banks to use their discretion and document if necessary.“A very senior regional public servant recently recounted to me h