THE MESSAGE underlying Barbados divesting itself of the Queen of England as its Head of State, distancing itself from its old British colonial trappings, and becoming a Republic, is that Barbados intends to become as self-reliant, culturally confident and secure, self-sufficient, and as socially just and equal as possible.
AND IF THAT MESSAGE is to be actualized, it will call for the emphasizing of a strong strain of what I choose to call, “Republican Economics”, within the mainstream of Barbados’ traditional economic model….