BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) -- Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is encouraging Barbadians to face the current challenges with a “calm, mature and disciplined approach”.
In his message to mark the 48th anniversary of Independence from Great Britain, being celebrated on Sunday, Stuart noted that Barbados, like most other countries in the Caribbean has been facing “unrelenting economic challenges”.
“These challenges have accentuated the need to restructure our economy in order to make it more viable. We do not enjoy any special dispensation under the laws of international economics. Barbados is not exempt from the challenges and crises which other countries and societies have to face.”
He said as part of a globalised world which dispenses benefits as well as burdens, Barbadians must “steel ourselves to meet those burdens and, by dint of our hard work and sacrifice, to eventually overcome them. That is the true essence of Independence.”