AS THE CHAMBER of Commerce warns Barbadians they are in for more tough times, political and economic watchers from the region say many of the island’s problems centre around indecisive leadership.
Former minister in the Ministry of Finance in Trinidad and Tobago, Mariano Browne, said with Barbados’ credit rating now comparable to Venezuela’s, measures to correct the situation “at this stage will be slow”.
Stressing that “this is not a five-year exercise . . . [or] a two-year exercise; this is a ten- to 15-year exercise”, the former chief executive officer of the Bank of Butterfield in Barbados said on Starcom Network’s radio call-in programme Brass Tacks Sunday: “The real problem here is a crisis of leadership. You have to toe the line and that has assured that
the party has fewer options.” (GE)
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