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Support for ‘timely’ measures - Barbados Today

Noted academic Professor Don Marshall says the relief measures the Mia Amor Mottley administration is implementing to help Barbados weather the rapidly rising cost of living, is an indication that Government is willing to respond to the adverse circumstances the country is facing.The Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus, said the fallout from the Russia/Ukraine War has led to a situation where the six months Prime Minister Mottley has earmarked for targeted relief is an appropriate time frame.“It gives the Government about three months before the end of the financial year to then look at the impact on social expenditure. But a government before had put forward the idea of free camps.

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