I am delighted that this article has sparked such healthy responses.  Thank you all.  Tourism is far too important to all of us in this country and I appreciate some healthy thought on the whole topic of our #1 industry.
I could not agree more with Peter Laurie when he posed the question of the necessity/relevance [...]

Introduction:
The problem with crafting a new and dynamic immigration policy is that by definition it cannot be one-dimensional in that it impacts on the internal security of the nation, crime, national culture, public language, religion, taxation, financial system and the other broad areas of public policy and social cohesion.
It is also, again by definition, one [...]

Former Prime Minister (from 1994-2008),The Rt.Hon.Owen S. Arthur,M.P.,has made a very timely and important speech to the Young Economist Association of The University Of The West Indies. All Barbadians should take careful note of what he has said.It is rich in content.
Its title is “Transforming The Barbados Economy in the age of Liberalisation”.
This analysis is [...]

Innovation is one of those magic business elixirs that everybody talks about as essential to success in a globalising competitive and rapidly changing world, but few seem to fully understand or to have mastered with any degree of confidence.

Prime minister David Thompson and his senior economic advisers and consultants are going on a merry, inebriated walk around a funeral pyre like drunken sailors on shore leave..
Somehow they seem to believe that if they play the three monkeys – see nothing, do nothing and pretend to be dumb – the world will be a [...]