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Prime Minister Owen Arthur has promised Barbadians that there will be no digital divide in Barbados.
The prime minister has said that resources centers are to be constructed across this tiny Caribbean island so that children can have access to the Internet and training in information technology.
"There are a large number of children of poor people who do not have access to such facilities at home, and left un-addressed, we can face a new inequality. Not an income inequality, but a digital divide where some people can advance because of access to the technology, while others stay backward because they don't have it. And it is the government's determination that there should be no digital divide in this country," he added.
He said there was no need for Barbados to return to a system of local government but that communities should take responsibility for their own affairs. "I believe that in this country there is a tremendous capacity for us to devolve responsibility to community groups so that they can be responsible for the management, maintenance and operation of community facilities to a greater extent than has been the case in the past. Our national institutions would retain an oversight for setting the standards, providing the financial resources, and for making sure that the things are run according to plan."
On a broader issue of development, the prime minister announced that the south-eastern parish of St Philip has been identified as the next major frontier for development. "It has the land space, it has the majestic physical conditions, and it has a people who have a sense of enterprise and entrepreneurship... Hence the government is already supporting the expansion of tourism in this parish," he revealed.
