While Prime Minister Mia Mottley outlined in her Budget a 15-point economy strategy, Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne used the same number to identify disincentives to investment in Barbados:
- Excessive debt
- High taxes
- Austere economic measures
- High costs
- High inflation
- Rampant crime
- Significant poverty
- Slow-paced digitisation.
- A demoralised public service
- Slow business facilitation
- Poor roads and infrastructure
- Marginalised churches and NGOs
- Corruption
- Eroded democratic traditions
- Slow pace economic diversification