Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, will be meeting with the Social Partnership and members of the civil society shortly to discuss a “series of missions” aimed at making Barbados a world class society by 2030.
This was divulged yesterday as she addressed those gathered at Kensington Oval for the Independence Parade to celebrate the country’s 56th Anniversary of Independence and its first Anniversary as a Parliamentary Republic.
Ms. Mottley stressed that five goals would be shared with stakeholders and following consultations, work would commence in approximately two months on implementing them in the public and private sectors.
She noted that against the backdrop of the climate crisis and a world losing its biodiversity, the first goal must be “to green Barbados” and to ensure that in greening Barbados, that “we protect our food supply”.
She added that the second goal must be a healthy and safe Barbados while the third “must be to use the platform of education that we have invested in, for centuries, but in particular in our modern existence, to create a knowledge and innovation hub”.
Ms. Motley continued: “The fourth one must be to leverage our geography that Barbados must be an entrepôt for the west in the southern hemisphere, recognising that geography has always mattered…”
According to the Prime Minister, the fifth goal is the economic enfranchisement of our people.
PM Mottley added that prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the mission was set in 2020 with the view to achieving the targets by 2027. Noting that that target was beset with obstacles, she said her government had refocused the objective and “reset a new date for the mission”.
“We have to set a few missions if we are going to be world class by 2030… Like with life there are obstacles, and when we have obstacles we refocus and reset the mission. Now that we are out it is time to ensure that the COVID comatose mindset is put behind us and that we refocus and reset the mission,” she emphasised.
Urging Barbadians to use the example that guided the country safely through COVID-19, Ms. Mottley stressed that we must work together across all sectors and age groups to make the country the best.