Happy Independence Anniversary Barbados

In recent times, Barbados, like most of our Caribbean neighbours, and like most countries in the western world, has been facing unrelenting economic challenges. These challenges have accentuated the need to restructure our economy in order to make it more viable.

…We are now part of a globalised world which dispenses benefits as well as burdens. When there are benefits, we enjoy them. When there are burdens however, we have to steel ourselves to meet those burdens and, by dint of our hard work and  sacrifice, to eventually overcome them. That is the essence of Independence.

Barbados Prime Minister Right Hon. Freundel Stuart’s exhortation to the nation on its 48th independence anniversary.

Read more: Prime Minister’s Address