Budget 2012 will be performed by new Finance Minister Xavier-Luc Duval on 4th November. We badly need to establish a fully economic independence for this country. 43 years since Independence, we are still very much a dependent nation in many ways. This is seen more starkly in the economic sphere where all Finance Ministers in the past made a bee line to the World Bank for aid at the drop of a hat. Cartoonists had a field day portraying them with the begging bowl.