*  *  *  Members of the Diplomatic Corps Acting President of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Andy Armstrong Members of the private sector Members of the media Distinguished ladies and gentlemen.
This talk offers an opportunity to return to a topic that, as Jewel Brathwaite has picked up, I wrote about in January this year, when I was at the Centre for Money and Finance at UWI, St. Augustine. All the major industrialised countries have tackled the economic crisis with huge government stimulus packages. Why aren’t Caribbean countries doing the same?