Senior economic advisor to Government Dr Kevin Greenidge has made a strong case for the administration’s resistance to demands from the public sector for a pay increase.But that cause may be undermined, for a very good reason. It is the Government’s own assertion that the island has achieved a remarkable 10.5 per cent economic growth in the first six months of 2022.This country’s public servants are going to be very unconvinced that the administration must continue what is effectively a wage freeze by another name, when at the same time, the island is being applauded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) Monitoring Committee for hitting all its economic targets.The National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) must certainly now request that maybe it is time to put some key social indicators on the Monitoring Committee’s list of targets to test the effectiveness of the BERT programme.
