Good sign

GOVERNMENT may be able to achieve the Public Service cuts it needs without job losses.
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has said in Toronto that this was the indication filtering through from an ongoing analysis he had ordered on the effects of expenditure cuts announced in last month’s Budget to bring down an unsustainable deficit.
“I said that research should be done in the month of September and that by the end of September it should be with the Head of the Civil Service for discussion with me so that we can see what the overall impact of the budgetary measures would be on the Public Service and to try to see therefore how best we can achieve the cuts we want without having to cause disruption in the households of Barbados,” Stuart said in an interview.
“Fortunately, I have been getting little driblets of information from ministries and ministers as they have conducted that kind of research and a lot of them are realizing that the truth is that we can get the cuts we want without having necessarily to affect employment in the Public Service,” he added.