15 Disincentives to Investment

While Prime Minister Mia Mottley outlined in her Budget a 15-point economy strategy, Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne used the same number to identify disincentives to investment in Barbados:

1. Excessive debt
2. High taxes
3. Austere economic measures
4. High costs
5. High inflation
6. Rampant crime
7. Significant poverty
8. Slow-paced digitisation.
9. A demoralised public service
10. Slow business facilitation
11. Poor roads and infrastructure
12. Marginalised churches and NGOs
13. Corruption
14. Eroded democratic traditions
15. Slow pace economic diversification