Participants from the All Saints Primary School posing with their prizes after receiving first place in the Container Gardening Category.
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resource Management, Andrew Gittens, is of the view that we need to look inwardly for answers to our economic issues.
His comments came during an awards ceremony, which took place at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre yesterday morning.
“Currently, Barbados is experiencing challenging economic times, which could create some measure of uncertainty regarding what lies ahead of us. Therefore, we need to look inwardly to see how best we can deal with the challenges before us,” he said.
He noted that one such challenge we face is providing an adequate amount of food for the citizens in our community, in order to maintain the quality of life that they are accustomed to. However, he pointed out that given our current financial constraints, he believes that we should be using finances wisely, through investing in resources that will be better for the long-run.