St. Vincent's borrowing-transparency fight sharpens

A dispute over how fully the government discloses its borrowing has become a live political fight in Kingstown.

In St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a fight over the transparency of government borrowing has sharpened, with the opposition pressing for fuller disclosure of what the state owes and on what terms. The argument is a small-country version of a universal one: how much a government must show its citizens about the debts taken in their name.