8m budget blueprint to drive Barbados's transformation into a “world-class” digital economy by 2030 was revealed in the House of Assembly on Wednesday, outlining a four-year plan that he said would shift the country from “firefighting” maintenance issues to building. A $187., Minister of Finance, delivered the Budgetary Proposals and Financial Statement 2026 under the theme: “Greater Will Our Nation Grow” on March 16, 2026. It builds on the stabilisation gains of BERT 2018 and the growth momentum of BERT 2022, and now shifts decisively toward long-term. On Monday, March 18, 2024, the Honorable Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Culture, Security and the Public Service, Mia Amor Mottley, S.