OWEN ARTHUR’S DECISION to work with the Freundel Stuart administration, serving on its new Economic Council, is getting the thumbs up in economic and political circles.
While members of the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) have remained tight-lipped about their former leader and Prime Minister of 14 years joining forces with the Government, a leading economist told the DAILY NATION yesterday the move was a good decision for the country.
Professor Michael Howard, a former head of the economics department at the University of the West Indies (UWI), said: “I fully endorse [Arthur’s] acceptance to head the National Economic Council. I think it is good for Barbados that a statesman like Owen could feel it is important at this time to intervene, because the economy and our policies are not going in the right direction.” (GE)
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