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		<title>MY 2010 WISH!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My greatest wish for the country in 2010 is that a clear philosophy emerges in the management of the Barbados economy, since there is truly no place for a “wait and see” strategy in today’s World where information abounds. If it was the intention of the government to play down the economy and play up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=108&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TWO BEST TOO!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been asked by readers of the column to offer not only criticism but some advice especially because of the pending economic difficulties and also in light of the apparent daze that seems to have engulfed the country’s leadership.  One of the first pieces of advice given in this column was to borrow from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=73&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CRISIS: FISCAL NOT ECONOMIC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I ended my column with the bold assertion that “Barbados’ fiscal position is a serious cause for concern”. This week I am downgrading the condition to a fiscal crisis, which if unchecked, would precipitate an economic crisis. To date, Barbados does not yet have an economic crisis, the economy is in recession. Having [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=62&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TAKE NOTE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in 2008, I suggested a one‐year fiscal stimulus package of 1% of GDP – S80 million; and given the public utterances, the government had no intention of stimulating the economy. Perhaps, the suggestion came from the wrong source. Maybe I am incapable of giving advice on fiscal matters, because the Economic and Financial Statistics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=53&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CONTRACTION NOT DEFLATION</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No trained economist would have described the 2008 budget as deflationary since deflation is a steady decline of the price level. How could the imposition of $104 million in fees and taxation cause deflation? In fact the budget contributed to a rise in the price level and also assisted in contracting the economy. The clearest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=51&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POOR STANDARDS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent downgrading of Barbados’ credit rating outlook came as no surprise given the inactivity of the government with respect to the economy. Immediately on assuming office the Democratic Labour Party administration was warned of the threatening clouds on the horizon and chose to regard the warnings as noises coming from the voices of preachers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=49&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YES, MR. MINISTER!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I look forward to singing the Hallelujah Chorus, if it means that I am doing so in recognition of a state import agency succeeding in cutting some food prices by as much as 50 per cent. Such an accomplishment would bring several issues into play with respect to the distribution and retail trade in Barbados. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=46&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CHOICE OVER CBC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a need for a second television station in Barbados to cover local news and this has nothing to do with the quality of news coverage at the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It has to do with having choice which is an essential ingredient in democratic societies and more importantly in a maturing democracy. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=44&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ACUMEN OR ACADEMICS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a buddy who started university and stopped to run his own business; and he has not regretted. There seems somehow to be a collision between having academic qualifications and the capacity to run a successful business. Perhaps this line of reasoning lends credence to the thinking that you are born a businessman which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=42&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OVERHAUL OR HAUL OVER!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Minister of Finance or Prime Minister of Barbados could be seriously contemplating a comprehensive overhaul of the tax system, unless he is under pressure from some source to do so. In an effort to prove the source, I have to quote two paragraphs from the IMF’s recent Article 1V report which reads as follows: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=40&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ONE WAY OUT, GROWTH!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I wrote that “having failed to adopt an aggressive growth strategy early in 2008 to counter the obvious negative economic signs at the time, the government is now virtually locked into an IMF‐type austerity programme that would be accompanied by job losses, heavy foreign borrowing, renewed inflation in 2010 and a significant loss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=39&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE IMF &#8211; BELIEVE IT OR NOT!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview with Tony Best, Prime Minister Thompson said among other things “…Believe it or not, the latest unemployment statistics actually show that unemployment is at 9.9 per cent”. This statistic is for the second quarter April – June 2009 when the economy went officially into recession, which may therefore explain the phrase [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=37&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>QUEEN’S vs CAWMERE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I had the pleasure of being in a gathering to celebrate my daughter’s departure to the United Kingdom in search of higher knowledge and greater understanding of life itself, only to encounter a school of Queen’s College girls who made it quite clear that “Cawmere” boys are incapable of querying anything that vaguely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=36&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE TWO ARTHURS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The view that an opposition party has every right to criticize government policies without preparing alternative policies is one that I never shared. This does not mean that the alternative policies have to be shared with government, especially given the adversarial nature of local politics, but on becoming the government, it should be clear that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=34&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IGNORANT AMBITION!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless the government intends to practice some version of “Kellmanomics” not yet known to the discipline of economics, the proposal to establish a government agency to tackle the cost of living problem in Barbados is ignorance of the highest order. The proposal reflects a complete lack of understanding of how the retail business works and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=33&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WORK OVER LEISURE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historically the Barbados economy is at its weakest during the period July to September as hundreds of students, if not thousands, leave school and the majority of them enter the work force when it is least able to absorb them. This relative weakness reflects the end of the tourist winter season and in earlier times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=30&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UNEMPLOYMENT FUND</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbados’ unemployment rate has reached double digits in the face of the current economic recession and on the evidence 2010 may be an even tougher year and unemployment is expected to rise. This trend has serious implications for the health of the unemployment benefit fund which is currently paying out more in benefits than it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=28&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE STATE OF PLAY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the time of year when our social commentators use rhythm, lyrics and melody to entertain, educate, inform and/or inspire the people. This is done in song and the social commentator does not have to be both writer and singer, though the ultimate calypsonian does both. In an increasingly commercial world, the emphasis of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=26&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LACK OF LEADERSHIP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst an economic recession with rising prices and unemployment, declining investment, tourist arrivals and foreign reserves, the crisis in West Indies cricket adds to the misery of West Indians at home and abroad. Above and beyond the economic crisis, the current state of West Indies cricket is indicative of a bigger crisis in the Caribbean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=25&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BLACK EXCELLENCE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I reflect on the life and death of Michael Jackson, it dawned on me that having born at the end of the 1950s I have witnessed the most enduring period of black emancipation in the history of mankind. So far my life has coincided with the work of Martin Luther King followed by Mandela, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=24&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A NUMBERS’ GAME</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote that “at the height of the concerns about illegal immigrants Barbados experienced its lowest rate of unemployment. If as some are arguing the number of illegal immigrants reached tantalizing levels, then the Barbados economy was operating at close to full employment because an illegal immigrant is not part of the country’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=22&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MONEY OR LABOUR?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been watching and listening studiously to the debate on illegal immigrants and I am in no way surprised by the view of the majority in this matter. A typical illegal immigrant is Guyanese, poor and seeking to enhance his/her life. It is highly unlikely that a typical non-CARICOM illegal immigrant is poor when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=20&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FOR 11-PLUS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year around this time, an old worn debate about the abolition of the 11-plus examination raises its head. The debate would remain useless until someone can device a better system for the placement of students in the existing secondary schools or better still in the secondary schools as they exist. The real issue is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=18&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PERFECT INDEED!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desperate times attract desperate decision-making! The announced but yet to be explained “perfect weather guarantee” tourism marketing programme for the second half of 2009 is a perfect example of desperation by the decision-making bodies in the industry and by extension the cabinet of Barbados. To the annoyance of some parliamentarians, I share the view that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=17&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OH CRICKET!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is mystifying to most cricket enthusiasts why the young, teenage West Indies teams are competitive on the World stage and the older West Indies team is unable to truly compete especially in the more traditional test cricket arena. Perhaps the youth bring: (1) abundant physical/natural talents that are not yet contaminated by excessive coaching, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=15&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CHANGE, YES!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did not hear the Minister of Economic Development frequent references to me as “asscoll” in his ranting presentation during the budget last week, but I received calls from concerned Barbadians who were shocked that a member of parliament was permitted to use such language in the speaker’s house. It is simply reflective of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=10&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FISCAL MISMATCH</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week’s budget confirmed my greatest fear with respect to the management of the Barbados economy in times of crisis, when that responsibility lies in the hands of someone with the competence of the current minister of finance. The few policy initiatives bore no relation to the skimpy analysis of the economy which focused disproportionately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=7&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ALL ESOTERIC!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our society is changing and not always in the most desirable way, giving us cause to examine the main institutions of the family, the school and the workplace. These are institutions and so only come to life when it is accepted that people and their beliefs determine the rate and direction of the institutions’ change. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=4&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FAVOUR LOW-INCOME!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In 2005, I made similar public utterances to the ones that I am making now about the need for the reintroduction of a two-tiered system of wage settlement for public sector workers. These utterances reflected the need to give low-income workers a higher percentage increase in wages and salaries than those at the top because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=103&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>INEVITABLE GREATNESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a kind of inevitability about Barack Obama becoming President of the United States of America, once he had secured the victory in the primaries over Hillary Clinton.  Just two weeks ago, I wrote about the superiority of Barack in the treatment of the issues. He happens to be a black man who carries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=100&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PUT PEOPLE FIRST!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) said that I “should know better” in reacting to criticisms leveled at his organization in leaving at least four percentage points on the table in the recent negotiations.  I do know that unions put more emphasis on inflation (cost of living) than they do on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=97&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FISCAL STIMULUS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been asked by readers of the column to offer not only criticism but some advice especially because of the pending economic difficulties and also in light of the apparent daze that seems to have engulfed the country’s leadership.  One of the first pieces of advice given in this column was to borrow from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=88&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CRICKET: ARTISTIC SCIENCE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When art and science unknowingly collide it creates chaos but if allowed to knowingly co-exist it creates new limits of possibilities.  The old adage that cricket is a side-on game is in recognition of it being first and foremost an art. But with little resources and a lot of innate abilities, great cricketers emerged in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=94&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘W’ FOR WOMEN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Last Friday, the honour was mine to eulogise an ordinary Barbadian woman who had extra-ordinary qualities. She not only loved but showed affection; she not only gave but was generous and she not only committed but was exceedingly loyal.  In a very real sense, she respected ‘who’ you were but of greater significance was ‘how’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=91&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEO- CLICO!</title>
		<link>http://whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/neo-clico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some facts on CLICO (Barbados), according to its most recently audited accounts for the year 2007. In the space available, we answer the following: What is CLICO? Who owns CLICO? How is CLICO?  It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of C.L. Financial Limited, which is incorporated in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=85&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COMATOSE STATE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is already evidence of the impact of the world financial crisis on the local financial sector, broadly defined to include non-banking financial institutions. Having taken out a pension plan years ago with payments of $600 per month, an individual recently retires to receive a mere pension of $720 per month. In the meantime, companies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=81&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY JOURNEY</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first time in my life that I will be without both of my parents at Christmas time. Like most boys I was naturally inclined to my mother who fathered me. My father was less of an influence in my life, as the extended family was responsible predominantly for my upbringing.  This time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmattersmostblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11001043&amp;post=76&amp;subd=whatmattersmostblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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