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I Need Things to Make Real Sense
There’s a video of a young Caribbean woman that made the rounds last week. I found it funny, encouraging to a point, but sad. Her loyalty to her life partner was on display as she tried to crowdsource…
The High Cost of Cheap Hands
The recent report that Government was probing the living conditions of migrant construction workers in Barbados should not have surprised us as much as it did. Concerns had been raised about Colombian…
BimPay is not Witchcraft II
Some things in life I simply cannot ignore. The one that comes most readily to mind is a relative of mine who cannot help but eat things they shouldn’t. Though they know better, this particular…
The Curious Case of an Oil-Based Economy
I cast my mind back to driving through St. Philip in the late 1980s, on the way to my paternal grandmother’s house in Brereton. My earliest memories of Barbados’ second-best parish contain several…
Why productivity matters more than the headline GDP number
Headline growth makes the news, but productivity is what actually decides whether wages rise and life gets easier. Here is why it matters for Barbados.
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