I extolled the virtues of the E-Team’s Barbados Entrepreneurship Foundation’s thrust to make Barbados “The #1 Entrepreneurial Hub in the World by 2020”. There was an immediate call for Jamaica to form a C-Team to transform Kingston into “A Cultural Capital of the Caribbean”.
Barbados can accept the challenge to become the No. 1 Entrepreneurial Hub in the World by 2020. This “Moon Shot” will soon be aggressively promoted by the E-TEAM.
“You could read about it in books and it sounds strange to call it a disease of sorts, but when stress gets a hold of your system the body immunity goes real low and the joyful strength the body requires to keep moving fades away.
As we improve our understanding of each of these exciting prospects there is no doubt in my mind that there will be many stimuli to keep us alive and well.
The most important missing link in the agricultural sector is a “Master Control” shepherding service which coordinates the successful flow of agricultural commodities from supply to market at a profit.
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.
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.
the context of Barbados and in my opinion, Trade Unions need to transition from their traditional strategies, more suited for the ’40s and ’50s, and shift their emphasis to “enhancing productivity for fair compensation”, without compromising their main objective of enhanced socio-economic well-being for their members.