Mottley, the first woman to head a government in Barbados, said that she would be holding ministers to “very high standards of efficiency and productivity” and that she had structured her Cabinet in such a way as to embrace new concepts and initiatives.
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It also advised against the Central Bank printing money to fund Government as this could erode reserves and jeopardise the country’s exchange rate peg.