Nothing but the truth!

Opposition Leader Owen Arthur has called on the Central Bank of Barbados to tell people the truth and nothing but the unharnessed truth, and also to stop discouraging the International Monetary Fund’s team from coming to these shores at this time.
In a speech punctuated by loud cheering at the packed Alma Parris Secondary School hall last night, Arthur accused the Central Bank and its Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell of departing from traditional processes that were crucial to the good governance of the country.
“There’s no institution that is more integral to that process of good governance than the Central Bank of Barbados who, when they tell you that the rate of exchange will be X, you must believe [it] without having to doubt the integrity of the process by which those numbers were given,” he said.
He said the people’s traditional high esteem for the Central Bank must be restored instead of their believing that information from the bank may be inspired by sordid political purpose. (RJ)