In 1959 Barbados was way ahead of Singapore, according to any set of macro-economic indicators, and maintained that status until 1970 after which the gap widened to where it is today. Singapore’s GDP per capita is now of the order of a factor of three greater than that of Barbados.
The economic recovery process depends on the private sector to develop one new or start-up enterprise after another anyway, so why not give the private sector a strong mandate to aggressively create momentum, with government providing an efficient enabling environment based on regulatory and service functions.
Six e-books in six months, that’s my task.
An autobiography is a means of sharing and I would like to congratulate Reds for making the effort to produce this work which I am sure will be a stimulus for those who read it and may be the example that influences change in many lives in these challenging times.
There were 450 people who registered, both local and Diaspora, and the theme was “Strengthening the Bonds that Unite Us”. There were Diaspora delegates primarily from North America, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean.