EDITORIAL: Facing up to economic reality

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE RECENT notices of pending layoffs in the private sector will undoubtedly invite an aura of scepticism and concern among our working class population. The question on the lips of many of these workers will reside in the wonder “whose turn is next?”
Although revelation of current unemployment statistics remains veiled in secrecy, the obvious closure of a number of business places openly tells the story that there would inevitably have been concomitant job losses.
There is no partisan pride when persons are unable to settle domestic bills such as water and light but the situation becomes more critical and censorious when visits to the supermarket are intuitively censured as places that are out of bounds.