Noted economist Ryan Straughn says after analyzing the latest Central Bank of Barbados economic report for 2015, he was left to conclude that “it reads like a nightmare”.
Tearing into the January 19 economic report in which Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell revealed that the island had achieved 0.5 per cent growth last year and was projected to realize 1.8 per cent growth this year, he told Barbados TODAY the report suggested that the economy was “not anywhere close to turn around”.
Straughn, who recently threw his hat into the political...