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Dennis Jones is a Jamaican-born international economist, who has lived most of the time in the UK and USA, and latterly in Guinea, west Africa. He moved back to the Caribbean in 2007. This blog contains his observations on life on this small eastern Caribbean island, as well as views on life and issues on a broader landscape, especially the Caribbean and Africa.

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Barbados' Fiscal Deficit; Causes and Possible Solutions: Lunch Time Lecture, February 19

The next session in the Unity Bar lunch time lecture series will be on Friday 19, 2010. It will be devoted to a panel discussion in the Auditorium, George Street, Belleville, St. Michael. The topic will be "Barbados' Fiscal Deficit; Causes and Possible Solutions", and the panel will comprise:
Dr. the Hon. David Estwick, Minister of Economic Affairs & Empowerment, Innovation, Trade, Industry and Commerce,
Dr. Justin Robinson, Head of Management Studies Programme, Faculty Of Social Science, and
Mr. Wilberne Persaud, Coordinator, Banking and Finance Programme, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI, Cave Hill.

As usual lunch will be served from 12.30 pm and the lecture will start at 1.00 pm.

It promises to be a spirited discussion.

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