Faced with a $2 billion economic contraction and related $600 million fall in revenue, Government would have found it “completely impossible” to finance Barbados’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic without borrowing more money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and others. Now having taken on the increased financial burden, the IMF and other key players in the international community need to give Barbados and other countries the room to more …
Former Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn is putting the Mia Amor Mottley Government on notice that even though he is no longer a member of the Senate, he has no intention of going quietly into the good night. He told the Sunday Sun that before he had an official platform, he never shied away from keeping tabs on the ruling administration, and with the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) again capturing all …