PRIME MINISTER Freundel Stuart has put Barbadians on notice of more impending changes.
He said as the country moves towards its 50th year of Independence, it will mean that residents will have to move from a stage of entitlement to relying less on the state and accepting more personal responsibility.
“We have to prepare the population to be looking after itself and relying on the state less and leaving the state only to look after the most vulnerable people in the society, and giving the country and its development that more general direction,” warned Stuart on Sunday night at a political meeting of his Democratic Labour Party styled The South Alive.
In his more than one-hour speech to party faithful at the Deighton Griffith Secondary School, he said Barbados needed to be socially balanced, economically viable, environmentally sound, and characterized by good and transparent governance.
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