We have designed a mass scale Financial Literacy Program to integrate the financially excluded population with low level of income and low literacy level with the formal financial system. The program is run through our Financial Literacy Centres set up by banks, nearly 800 in numbers.
In the space of two generations Barbadians have transformed this country from the third world to the first world. And we have done it without the natural resource endowment of many others. This remarkable achievement should buoy our spirits and sharpen our resolve as we take on the heavyweight countries of the first division.