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#94558 - 05/21/08 08:17 AM
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reddevil
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Apart from the occasional Florida run to visit family and view their robotic lifestyle, this Jamaican life is what I want my son to experience. I pray that amidst this intrusive globalization process, we do not lose ourselves in another man's culture.
seems like he is speaking directly to those on the rock Caus once you are in Uncle sam's country everyone is transformed economically into Uncle's nieces and nephews legitimate Yankees take a look at this thread like most threads on Jamaica maybe only because it is kept suspended it yields 16 replies 850 views while President Obama - 450 replies, 27K views damn we are being globalized Too late now
This is a good thread because it is really positive but I think we are creating an image of Jamaica that is unrealistic. We must not rest on our laurels and say we´re ok let´s not touch a thing. I think to uplift and be positive you can talk about some things I will talk about here that will make you realise a least a part of why we are where we are.
You can talk down globalization all you want but show me how Jamaica is going to grow from the inside. Where would JA be without Digicel a foreign company? I have been here a month now and it so clear that we are not productive enough to move ahead from within. In the supermarkets I see so many foreign products. Why? Is it because our people only want foreign brands. Not always. The fact is we have no local alternative and there is no choice but to buy foreign goods whose prices are jacked up. It is ridiculously expensive to live in Jamaica mainly because locally we don´t produce enough foodstuffs. If you are going to be dependent on foreign name brands why not license and produce them locally? Why do I have to buy imported celery and red peppers in the supermarket? We are too dependent on trade because we ourselves don´t do enough, we are not invaded we simply don´t do enough to satisfy some very basic needs and wants. We are underdeveloped as a retailing nation and larger malls with more retail space will attract more companies, encourage expansion of local companies and they will need to hire people. That´s just part of it.
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#94761 - 05/22/08 07:44 PM
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Why engage in hardwork when you can just import says mr/mrs local businessperson
You take the plane to Miami work out a contract wid a supplier
and rent a store and the locals come in an buy di farin tings
We can stay here say this and that but as Anthony B seh
"everybody waan fi raid di barn but nuhbadi waan fi plant di corn"
so the local farmer who push down two corn and bwoy juk im and raid im barn
until we go down an plant two corn and bring it to market nothing more can be said
why plant when you can tief is the parasite mindset that we need to root out
and that's just part of it
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#120134 - 01/04/09 09:14 AM
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nothing happens before its time(it was all written or its like some people no read dem bible a who dem?) Things have to run its course and in time we will be beaten down to the foundation to the point where we run go seek him.
So the thing set
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#124884 - 03/08/09 04:16 AM
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Jagga
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Here is a spin on Jamaica that too many of us just close our eyes to. But this is real and the Island we love is decaying as the future dies.
Generation Lost - I WANT TO GEROW UP!
Published: Sunday | March 8, 2009
Gareth Manning, Sunday Gleaner Writer
WITH WELL over 2,000 children and young adults murdered in Jamaica over the past five years, at an average of more than 400 per year, Jamaica is undoubtedly on a path to self-destruction, experts agree.
"What we are doing to ourselves is self-destructive," comments anthropologist Dr Herbert Gayle. "This is what we call social suicide!"
The twisted roots of violence that has choked Jamaica's young people, 90 per cent of whom are young men, have also robbed the country of some brilliant young minds.
"By killing these youngsters, the country is being deprived of potential strength and development," says social worker and community volunteer, Horace Levy.
Social programmes needed
He states that what is needed in these communities is more social programmes that educate and train people to be self-sufficient. By helping people lift themselves out of their circumstances, Levy says, the country would be able to save the lives of some of its bright, young minds.
Gayle, who is one of Jamaica's leading researchers on gang dynamics and inner-city violence, agrees.
"In the inner city and working communities, when they do have these bright kids who are going to replace some of us, what happens? We kill them! So we are literally replacing ourselves with weaker people.
"Jamaica has not been replenishing its society with the minds it needs to drive its future development, as those who can afford to have many children have few or none, while those who cannot - the poor - have more than they can afford to care for," Gayle says.
The lack of structural support in poor communities, Gayle adds, in turn, creates a myriad of social problems that make it nearly impossible for young, bright people from the inner city or similar communities to emerge.
He underscores the urgent need for social policies to effectively address the squalid conditions of the nation's poor and inner-city communities.
Gang recruitment
Gayle identifies gang recruitment as another phenomenon robbing the island of bright youngsters.
Once gifted youngsters are identified, he says, they are either recruited by criminal gangs or killed by jealous community members.
"It's paradoxical that some gangs will target bright youths. In other settings, persons will protect these kids. I have seen situations where people try to recruit them and other members say, 'We are going to have a war over this youth, he is not going to become no gang-banger'," Gayle discloses.
He says there have also been situations where jealous community members try to impede the progress of bright youngsters.
"What some parents also do is flaunt the progress of their children. So it cuts both ways. And that causes them (jealous community members) to target these kids and they get hurt as a result," he adds.
"So, rather than a village raising the child, it's a village killing the child," Gayle states.
Follow the 'Generation Lost' series each wek in the Sunday Gleaner.
Youth killed - by gender
# Year Males
2004 405
2005 405
2006 325
2007 351
2008 393
# Year Females
2004 40
2005 58
2006 43
2007 56
2008 45
Source: Jamaica Constabulary Force
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#127987 - 04/26/09 08:47 AM
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living2xl
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jamaica jamaica ...... birth place of reggae.......
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#135171 - 07/18/09 08:34 AM
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effalicious
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Jamaica would be perfect if....(fill in the blanks). It is still my home and nowhere will ever be like this.
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#150308 - 02/21/10 01:48 PM
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jt
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The leaders and government are in politics to help themselves and show no desire to help Jamaica or its people. And those who do care are silenced or ridiculed or marginalised or labelled so that those who have intentions of looting and raping and indulging in their greed may continue to do so.
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