BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - ON the eve of tonight’s discussion on a strategy for growing the Barbados economy, it is necessary to refer to a paper which the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr. Delisle Worrell, penned last year.
In the paper published in Washington D.C. by the Group of 30, Dr. Worrell reiterated that economic expansion in this country and, similarly, small economies, must be led by the foreign exchange-earning sectors of the economy.
The word “reiterated” is used here because there have been several occasions when the Governor has made this point – at his news conferences called to review the economy, and in other addresses he has made at conferences both in Barbados and elsewhere.