Budget 2026-27

Key Points of the 2026-27 Budgetary Proposals and Financial Statement as delivered by Minister of Finance Ryan Straughn on March 16, 2026.

• This is the first Budget being presented by this Government while not in an IMF programme. Barbados has regained control of its economic future. The country is on a stronger economic footing.
• Barbados remains in a stand-by arrangement with the IMF.
• Debt to GDP ratio was at 99.8% at October 2025; at January 2026 now 93.3%.

• Barbados now off everybody’s lists ...