When one is in charge, whether it be a political administration, a general manager, or a senior supervisor on the production line, it is expected that a few barbs will come your way.For obvious reasons - the buck stops with the man or woman who makes the final decisions. He or she is expected to guide the team and ensure there are few, if any, weak links.And so, despite the overwhelming victory at the recently concluded general election, in which the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) was returned to office with a record clean sweep of all the electoral seats, no one expects that it will be smooth sailing for the administration.For some time, Prime Minister Mia Mottley has spotlighted the issues of Barbados’ increasingly ageing population and the implications this is likely to have to the country’s social safety net, Government’s tax policies, and economic planning.
