'You Can't Pay Productivity-Based Wages If You Don't Measure Productivity' — UWI's Moore, Finance Minister Straughn and the BEC Stake Out the Wage-Talk Terrain

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Barbados Employers’ Confederation hosted a panel Wednesday that put the country’s wage-negotiation framework on the public record with unusual clarity. Finance Minister Ryan Straughn, BEC executive director Sheena Mayers-Granville, and UWI Cave Hill deputy principal and professor of economics Winston Moore all argued — from different vantage points — that Barbados’s wage talks have to move past minimum-rate negotiations and into a productivity conversation the country has not yet had honestly.

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'You Can't Pay Productivity-Based Wages If You Don't Measure Productivity' — UWI's Moore, Finance Minister Straughn and the BEC Stake Out the Wage-Talk Terrain