Stop listening to international institutions and start listening to the people of Barbados. That advice was offered by former Prime Minister Owen Arthur last night to the current Democratic Labour Party administration.
“We want them to do things that stand the test of reasonableness.
“Stop trusting international institutions. Stop following their policies. Stop being bound to a Medium-term Fiscal Strategy like it is the only thing that can govern an economy,” Arthur said in his contribution to the debate on the 2012 Budget presented by Minister of Chris Sinckler on Tuesday.
Arthur said that inertia was the most serious bugbear facing the country’s economy and described the current government’s record as an inglorious one of inertia and incompetence.
