OWEN ARTHUR may end up not being Government’s chief financial economic advisor after all.
Days after confirming that he had been approached by Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler to be the new chairman of Government’s Council of Economic Advisors, Arthur has seemingly pulled the plug on any such move.
His decision stems from a move by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart last Friday, during a meeting of the Full Social Partnership at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, to name a number of persons to two working groups set up to tackle the issues of the country’s declining foreign reserves and a skyrocketing fiscal deficit.
Stuart named Roseanne Myers, president of the Barbados Hotel Tourism Association, and Donna Wellington, president of the Bankers’ Association, to the Foreign Reserves Working Group, while David Small and Charles Herbert, chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Agency, were named to serve on the Fiscal Deficit Working Group. (RB)
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