A Jamaican In Exile

The Job Market in 5 Years - Lisa Hanna Lisa is right. However, this is nothing new. This process has been going on for years. When I left CAST (now UTech), computers were as big as a room and compared to todays PCs, they were very slow. I then worked at the Jamaica Telephone Company (JTC) as a Statistician. Within 5 years, with the advancement in computers, I realized I would soon be obsolete. Proactively, and to the horror of my family and co-workers, I resigned to start my own business. A few years after I left the JTC, my job could be done by a computer and the JTC itself eventually ceased to exist and all my former co-workers were out of a job. I eventually hired a computer nerd to teach me everything about computers and went on to make a living for years as a computer consultant. For example, I would not train to be a mechanic on internal combustion engines (ICE) as those types of vehicles will be disappearing in 10 years or less. If you want to be a car mechanic, train to be an

  https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20230722/st-elizabeth-female-farmer-gets-donkey-promised-pm No matter how the wearers of the green sunglasses do not like it, we have got to move away from politicians being involved in the giving out of donkeys, farm worker tickets, houses and the like....These are things that should be entrusted to the government/civil service bureaucracy to deal with in a fair and unbiased manner. Why? Because public money is not supposed to be the personal slush fund for politicians to use to buy votes. In a properly run country, everyone gets equal treatment according to need. These things are being provided by public money contributed by all of the tax paying public. The use of public money to provide goods and services to people needs to be properly monitored and accounted for. When this process is short-circuited by the intervention of politicians, it opens up the process to abuse: partisan bias, nepotism, corruption and the like. Time to change the wa

  https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/burry-boy-and-feathermop-the-violent-duo-that-helped-and-shamed-the-pnp/ In referring to change in a society, it is said that one cannot have make an omelet (or scrambled eggs) without 'breaking some eggs'. Even the non-violent movements of Garvey and Martin Luther King resulted in imprisonments, injuries and deaths. The problem with 'breaking some eggs' refers to you and me! Very often also, after the eggs are broken, that is only the beginning. Very often, revolutionary movements using the terms socialism and communism result in more 'breaking of eggs' - sometimes in the millions. Jamaica needs change but the challenge is how to break the grip of the corporate elite holding sway over the political elite - peacefully. One solution, Electoral Reform which includes: Campaign Finance Reform (Transparency about who funds the political parties and limits on such funding). Equal Public funding of all registered political parties

  https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/my-beautiful-country-where-are-we-going/ − I in_my_view   a day ago Top 10 most atheist countries in the world: #10 Uruguay- 41.5% religiously unaffiliated (GDP ppp US $102.5 billion/ per capita ppp US $28,740) #9 Netherlands- 44.3% religiously unaffiliated (GDP ppp US $1.29 trillion/ per capita ppp US $72,970) #8 Latvia- 45.3% religiously unaffiliated (GDP ppp US $75.9 billion/ per capita ppp US $40,260) #7 Korea (Republic)- 51.8% religiously unaffiliated (GDP ppp US $2.9 trillion/ per capita US ppp $56,710) #6 China- 51.8% religiously unaffiliated (GDP ppp US $33 trillion/ per capita ppp US $23,380) #5 Hong Kong- 54.7% religiously unaffiliated (US $544.74 Billion GDP/ per capita US $74,600) #4 Japan- 60% of population religiously unaffiliated (US $6.46 trillion GDP/ per capita US $51,810) #3 Estonia- 60.2% of population religiously unaffiliated. Relatively small economy (US $61.76 billion or $46,390 per capita) #2 North Korea- 71.3% of popula

  Mark Golding - Gleaner Photo https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20220920/golding-says-govt-spending-too-much-jdf-while-neglecting-jcf https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/are-we-at-war/ https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latest-news/gunmen-invade-north-coast-hotel-rob-employee/ 'War' requires the army - not the police. If we are at war, the army needs to take over the fight against these groups. Some say only the army is trained and equipped to bring the fight to these 'enemies of the state' - the gangs and there is some truth in that statement. That being said, there needs to be a longer term strategy to deal with these armed thugs. History is replete with would-be dictators who exaggerated or manufactured a situation which they then used to seize total dictatorial powers. Hitler's Reichstag's fire secretly started by the Nazis comes to mind. If what Mark Golding says is true, why would Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness prefer the Jamaica Defence F

by Thomas Van Capitalism is not the root of all evil, well for the most part it isn’t. Local capitalism, free of slavery or forced work is actually really efficient. Unfortunately in today’s global economy democratic countries through capitalism have become destructive. They have a dangerous advantage over the rest of the “unfree” world. The main argument for capitalism is that it “creates new technology and innovation that otherwise would not be possible. Without capitalism most of the modern day advancements would have never come to fruition and we’d all be living in the dark ages still.” This argument follows a logical pattern but draws the wrong conclusions. Rarely does capitalism actually create anything at all. When it does, it’s typically a system or method for delivering new technologies and products to the marketplace so capitalists can enjoy profit from the innovation(s) they had little to do with. Capitalism and capitalists are typically not altruistic intentioned people (on