DESPITE THE ANTICIPATION surrounding today’s Budget, a political scientist is rejecting suggestions the presentation could be a make or break for the Freundel Stuart administration.
Dr Don Marshall, director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), is convinced this Budget will have little impact on how Barbadians vote at the next poll.
He told the DAILY NATION yesterday most Barbadians would make up their minds about who should form the next Government during the period of campaigning, if they had not already done so.
Despite this, when Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler starts his budgetary proposals at 4 p.m. in the House of Assembly, Marshall said he would still be expected to signal to Barbadians the nine years of wage freezes in the public service would come to an end. (GE)
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