If ever there was a secret deal, it is the current Fiscal Consolidation Programme that the government has negotiated with the IDB. For the last three years, the government has given the impression to all Barbadians that the Fiscal Consolidation Programme is purely home-grown. And when asked about conditions responded “what conditions?”

An IDB Report, with the project number BA-L1026, reveals that the government is seeking to borrow a total of US$183 million from the IDB as part of a Fiscal...