PM Mottley defends decision to go to IMF to reduce national debt – Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation

PM Mottley defends decision to go to IMF to reduce national debt – Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has defended Government’s decision to go to the International Monetary Fund to help reduce the island’s debt and its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.Mottley, the leader of the ruling Barbados Labour Party, says there has been significant improvement under the IMF programme, which will come to an end next month.The Prime Minister was speaking at Sion Hill, on the St. James North by-election campaign trail, as she…

The Power They Carried: Three Women Who Changed The Caribbean

By Brad Nugent Leadership in the Caribbean isn’t handed down. It’s wrestled into existence — shaped by calloused hands, sharpened by history. For women, especially, it means rising not just against odds, but against centuries of silence. In a region built on bondage and patriarchy, to lead as a woman is to carry more than ambition — it’s to carry defiance. Portia Simpson-Miller of Jamaica, Sonia Pierre of the Dominican Republic, and Mia Mottley …