Groups hoping for ease

Organisations representing consumers, small businesses and retirees are all hoping for an ease when Minister of Finance Ryan Straughn delivers Budgetary Proposals in the House of Assembly tomorrow.

The Barbados Consumer Empowerment Network (BCEN), Small Business Association (SBA) and Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP) all say their various constituents face financial challenges that warrant some fiscal relief.

BCEN executive chairman Maureen Holder yesterday urged Straughn...