PRIME MINISTER FREUNDEL STUART isn’t bothered by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgrade of Barbados’ credit rating to junk status, and he doesn’t believe Barbadians should be either.
As for Opposition Leader Owen Arthur’s call for elections now in light of the downgrade, Stuart has told him to “take it easy, that time will come”, and advised him to “prepare for the battle of his life”.
In his first public reaction to the S&P announcement on Tuesday, Prime Minister Stuart said while he respected the international rating agency’s opinion he did not agree with it, and it would change nothing.
“I am not perturbed by the expression of the opinion of the ratings agency,” he said yesterday.
