Economy and elections in Barbados

As Barbados goes past the halfway mark since the last general elections in the country held in 2013, concern and discussion are obviously rising among the political parties about the prospects for the current Democratic Labour Party government led by Mr Freundel Stuart when its term ends, at a maximum, in 2018.

The obvious cause for concern is the state of the Barbadian economy which has undergone a relatively prolonged period of stagnation which the DLP government did, in part, inherit, but which it appears to have been unable to come to terms with and reverse, even as it has been forced to