Governor General Dame Sandra Mason delivering the Throne Speech yesterday in the Senate Chamber.
Government is intent on achieving a balanced budget by 2019, and to do so without any new financing requirements.
Prime Minister Mia Mottley (right) in discussion with the IMF’s Bert van Selm (left) during their meeting at Government Headquarters today. To Prime Minister Mottley’s right are Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Ryan Straughn; and Minister in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Marsha Caddle. (C.Pitt/BGIS)
GOVERNMENT and a team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be getting down to business to discuss the way forward for the Barbados economy.
Opposition Leader, Joseph Atherley, congratulates designated Deputy Speaker of the House and Member of Parliament for St. George North, Gline Clarke (left); and designated Speaker, Arthur Holder (centre), who is the Member of Parliament for St. Michael Central, after they were sworn in.
From left: Opposition Leader and Member of Parliament for St. Michael West, Bishop Joseph Atherley; Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn; Member of Parliament for St. Michael West Central, Ian Gooding-Edghill; and Member of Parliament for Christ Church South, Ralph Thorne, shared a light moment after the swearing-in ceremony held at Government House yesterday afternoon.
THERE is still no word on who will be appointed the second Opposition Senator.
Chief Justice of Barbados, Sir Marston Gibson (left), in conversation with Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Dale Marshall Q.C., during the opening of the Drug Treatment Court (DTC) Training Workshop.
THE island’s top judge, Chief Justice Sir Marston Gibson, is of the view that drug treatment can be more cost effective than the incarceration of the drug offender.
The Hon. Prime Minister Mia Mottley (left) at yesterday’s meeting. Looking on are Minister of Labour and the Social Partnership, Colin Jordan and Information Officer with the Barbados Government Information Service, Sharon Austin Gill-Moore.
For the third time since coming to office, the Barbados Labour Party Government convened a meeting with the Social Partnership.
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