‘Defend’ ethical approach
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart (left) chatting with Robert “Bob” Verdun following the annual Errol Barrow Memorial Lecture. (Picture by William Cummins, Courtesy Frank Collymore Hall)
Sat, January 21, 2012 - 12:08 AM
THE DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY’S (DLP) leadership has been advised to use this period of economic crisis to “affirm an ethics of development” that will serve Barbados’ interest over the long term.
The advice came from deputy principal of the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus Professor Eudine Barriteau, who reminded the political party that took Barbados into Independence of its responsibility to promote and defend an approach to development that transcended the present economic troubles.
“The consequences of abandoning ethical development strategies can produce permanent crises and social implosion,” Barriteau warned as she delivered the annual Errol barrow Memorial Lecture in the Frank Collymore Hall on Thursday night.
Addressing an audience that included Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and members of his Cabinet, she said the need to pay attention to such ethics was often discouraged by “official purveyors of the development industry” who she suggested prescribed approaches that were often “not ethical, just or sustainable”. (GC)
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The Professor is on sound ground: If we have no ethical standards (a.k.a. morals), we are nothing. However, reality, which sits firmly on the desk of Ministers of Finance, and also the desk of the Governor of our Central Bank, requires us also to realise that no-one, no-one, has ever argued successfully against arithmetic. And these are the folks who have to find foreign exchange to import every pound of flour, whereof we eat each day. We have to earn foreign exchange , or to borrow it, or to entice FDI (Foreign Direct investment), BEFORE we even order a shipment- or a pound- of flour..and everything else, whereof we find are “necessaries of life”…Corollas, Benzes, BMW’s, and Escalades included. Hard nut to crack, arithmetic.
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