The Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) Programme is a necessary tool to kickstart more sustainable growth for the island.That was the contention of Deputy Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw as she defended the Government’s decision to create a three-year BERT plan which will be funded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to follow the recently ended initial four-year economic programme.Speaking during Tuesday’s debate in the House of Assembly on a Resolution to take note of the BERT Plan 2022, she said the administration had to correct years of stagnation and mismanagement under the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) government.Bradshaw said although the main target of BERT 2.0 is economic growth, the recovery plan would not have been necessary if the previous administration had done their due diligence and kept the country on a steady path.
