The Central Bank’s latest economic report has received contrasting reviews ranging from it having no relationship to the realities faced by Barbadians to questions surrounding the platform on which growth will be built.On Wednesday, bank governor Cleviston Haynes – in his second quarter review of the economy – announced that the country had started to come out of recession as evidenced by a 5.5 per cent growth in economic activity during the April to June period.And while maintaining his forecast for a modest growth rate of between one and three per cent for this year, he said the second quarter growth rate was weaker than expected.At the same time, the governor, who is pinning a lot of the local recovery on a return to a vibrant tourism sector, contended that vaccination would be a major factor in that process.
