April 16, 2026 • 3 min readBajan Brief
Good morning. Miss Violet has reviewed the news and has several things to say, beginning with the most important.
THE PRIME MINISTER REPRESENTS US WELL
Prime Minister Mottley has gone to Washington and told the World Bank and IMF that the global financial system disadvantages small developing nations, that Barbados has direct experience of this, and that her country should host the secretariat of the new Borrowers’ Platform. Every word of this is correct. Every word of this needed to be said by someone with the authority to say it and be heard. Miss Violet was not surprised that it was our Prime Minister who said it. She has been saying versions of it for years and the world has gradually started to listen.
Read More → April 16, 2026 • 2 min readBajan Brief
Good morning from Bridgetown, where the Prime Minister is in Washington telling the world that Barbados has earned the right to host whatever needs hosting.
MOTTLEY PUTS BARBADOS FORWARD FOR GLOBAL BORROWERS’ PLATFORM
At the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, Prime Minister Mia Mottley declared Barbados’ formal interest in hosting the secretariat of the newly launched Borrowers’ Platform — a body designed to help developing nations navigate a global financial system she described, with characteristic bluntness, as rigged against the poor. “We have walked it, we have lived it, we are breathing it,” she said, which is not a sentence most heads of government could say with a straight face and be believed. Mottley can say it with a straight face because the record supports it. Whether Barbados secures the secretariat remains to be seen. That she made the case publicly and forcefully is already useful.
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