financial instruments, such as BOSS Bonds and other government paper. Minister Straughn acknowledged that he was now in a better position to understand how to improve the lives of Barbadians, having “gone through the worst seven years, I think, of a nation’s history, with a possible exception of the two past World Wars”. “Having come out of the other side of the last seven years, COVID, … the ash fall and a whole set of things, I think that we’re in a better position now to be able to really put this engine, we call Barbados, into fifth and sixth gear and really get moving,” he assured. 12 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 13, ISSUE 02
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