FINANCE MINISTER Chris Sinckler will not be rushed into making any harsh decisions to disrupt the social and economic fabric of the island.
Sinckler was adamant about this as he addressed an audience at the Grand Salle, Tom Adams Financial Centre, on Thursday night when he pointed out that Barbados was “a holistic society made up of both economic and social functions” and “not a cluster of statistics” and he maintained that economic and social balance sheets must therefore “move in concert with each other”.
This was the kind of thinking, he said, that was behind Government’s response to its economic challenges in the face of continued falling ratings by international rating agencies.
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