The festival was moved to its present date to provide an additional reason for visitors from our usual tourist markets to visit during the low season for tourism. Instead, the idea of Crop Over as a way of diversifying the tourism product happened to come on stream just as an entirely new potential source of visitors was developing: the Barbadian Diaspora.
Not for publication before 18 June 2018 12:45 Eastern Time  -2-  manipulation of benchmark rates for the financial benefit of individuals and institutions have made their future use unpalatable. Not surprisingly, then, these problems with benchmarks have undermined confidence in their reliability and robustness. In response, global authorities are working closely with the private sector to address them.