FUN AND JOKE ASIDE/ "RED GOLD" INNA WI POCKETS

Well its ironic, but the bauxite isnt what i am talking or what they are sighting. Its the refuse, from such, which has caused so many eye soars and let so many ailing. Leave it up to the Asians man, dem minds ticking so rapid the first world will within a few years have to reinvent dem selves to keep up. Japan has decided it wants to milk our mud lakes for what they are worth, if we allow them.

Our Minister of MINING AND WHATEVER is in talks with them and about to ink a deal which will see them doing a pilot project with the Japanese spliting the profit down the middle between Jamaica and it's self. 

It was after wondering what next they could tax that they stumbled on the idea, though it has been a while since it was put on the table. I think its one of the best , if not, the only idea the government has invested their attention in that has any merit whatsoever. I say to the Japanese "if you want di dirt tek it". From when wi a dig up di place a look fi oil and cyaah find none. What we have deemeed to be waste, for so long, now seems to be collateral long needed for the piggy bank to burst. 

Massah a now wi government can buy big vehicle dat tell dem which garrisons listed and which bars to hang out. Dem will now get the chance to have dem cake , nyam it and nyam fi wi tuh. Red Gold in wi pocket and wi still havent learnt how to manage the manleys and shearers that we had in our hands. We all need fi guh buy a share outta di properties weh di red dirt a store, fi cure will scratching hand middles or at least buy some soap.

Minister start di ball a roll suh wi can bring dung back di dollar. Dweeit suh dat when di civil servants dem seh yuh betta pay wi wi money yuh can seh "seeit yah" widdout hesitation.

Its been years now since laas wi pockets could hold up to wi responsibilities and di depression nuh send up wi blood pressure. Dem come tek wi dancehall now dem coming to conquer wi dungle heaps, anuh nuhtn, wi never si di value a wi tail suh wi did damn right have to reach di point where it hurting wi stomach. Wi going to have to change di colour of di flag now people di YELLOW/GOLD nat saying nutn. The replacement should be'RED". Black, green and red, yes man, di yellow has depreciated lol wooah roaoa(roll over and over again).

FUN AND JOKE ASIDE, it is a welcomed move from where I am standing all I am saying is, Christopher and him gang raped us once, the IMF raped us twice, three a death. Remember we are small and just two million strong, these people conquered and ruled China for decades. Lets not go into these negotiations and trade deals blindfolded by our dispositions and the need for quick fixes. We are heading, mi a laugh though i am fighting back the showing of mi teeth,to FIRST WORLD STATUS we must use our FIRST WORLD MINDS to get there.

Save The Educated And We Save The Nation

So much has been invested into the educating of our people but the gesture which has always been seen as a productive and grand extension now bares the strain of being the albatross about the necks of the academic. Day in, day out we listen to the local news and hear of efforts to reduce the numbers as it links to unemployment and we must welcome the moves but we must also be inclined to notice that most of this energy is directed at the Jamaican who I would deem as none academic. As I said before this is a move that is welcomed but I believe to be limiting and superficial.

The stress has always been placed on us educating our children but now we have educated them we have sent the prized cattle to the wilderness to die. We have not done properly our home work to understand that in no capital is put forward to support this group of well thinkers then most will become underemployed or unemployed couch warmers and deviants as there are not enough job opportunities for this intellectual grouping. For this country to move forward seriously we have to complete the investment process of education. We have educated the youth its now time to break the piggy banks and start financially backing these promises.

We have for years complained about brain drain and its effects on our economy but we have never genuinely tried to strategically tackle the problem. When the government sees it best to invest the countries finances as a way out, into street cleaners, drain cleaners, curb painters, ‘JEEP’ drivers and political band wagonists for a couple months of labor it only solves the problems for a day and emphasizes the point that we have clearly lost our integrity as a progressive nation. You can’t put money in the hands of babes and fool (no disrespect) to make substantial and sustainable gain. If we want to see significant change the government will have to redirect its injections towards those persons it has educated so that they can create and innovate new and more effective business solutions. We did not only educate to fill job vacancies in already existing and overwhelmed companies. Not everyone will want to be an employee any ways, Jamaica is filled with ambitious and educated youth able enough to take the reins to move the country further now that they are intellectually inclined at making better decisions.

A young man leaves college/ university fresh with inspiration and business ideas and sets out on a path of difference due to his patriotic values but recognizes the he just stepped into the rat race, the dead end. He failed to realize that his last name isn’t Matalon, Stuwart, Azan or Levy and the room he rents came furnished so he has no collateral. He recognizes that he doesn’t naturally have the financial backing that was a façade and reality sets in. He tries channeling his energies towards seeking funding but concurrently his savings dwindle and he is in a predicament of not having an alternative. He seeks a job to finance what’s left of his dreams and zeal but realizes that he is underpaid and underemployed living hand to mouth and the process has lost its point.

This anecdote is to emphasize on the struggles faced by so many of this countries brightest minds. Losing hope like the Burwood Beach and the truck loads of sand which mysteriously disappeared from its shores.  Our political will has been dragged through curry gravy and left behind zinc fences so that our politicians can get expensive SUVs and grand houses where they rub shoulders with fake smiles. The time is now for change and an onus needs to be placed on the government to make the right choices. For too long our citizens have tried to make a difference on their own, the private sector has done so much but see its efforts being squandered, blatantly and unapologetically. Employ the educated and your business will prosper, afford the educated the needed capital to start new ventures and our economy will see exponential growth. Employ our educated and real opportunities will be prospected for the under educated poor.

The in adequate measures that are institutionalized in order to employ development are failing fast. Opportunities run wild and are exhausted collapsing daily around us due to our inability to meaning fully exploit them due to our government’s inability to comprehend responsible leadership. Enterprise has lost its head to the blades of the ‘pork barrel’ system. We focus on impractical answers to our situations not because we are blind but because we deliberately blindfold our selves.

Hands can’t make fashion if there is no fabric. Banks make no practical sense if there is not capital.  Government spells no sense without thinking beings. Development is a no show without proper investment. Universities pop up daily graduating academics in droves without first doing their market research into the availability of jobs or business opportunities and investments. Maybe I have read improperly into such but there is a discrepancy somewhere. I won’t go so far and blame these institutions of higher learning but I will emphasize the lack of vision on the part of our past and present governments.

I fear to believe that the educated have no vote or that they are not choosing to execute their rights to adult suffrage. Why is it that the efforts by the governments seem to rest with the un/undereducated poor at the expense of the educated. Why is it that we have chosen to throw out the baby with the bath water in order to maintain power in a failing state? There is no need for citizens to be banding their bellies and bawling when there are so many educated and patriotic individuals sitting at home because no one recognizes the dilemmas of not fostering progress. Our countries problems as Mr. Perkins preached upon till death lies purely with the mismanagement of our countries most viable resource, its people. The academic minority has been cast aside, left to realize  their fate as casualties of a war while the powers that be parade in their “Emperor’s New Clothes”. The presumptions of progress have caused us to not buy into a genuine idea of development.

Save the educated we save the nation. “Without vision the people perish”. We have grown our farms to support our children built our schools and universities to foster their development, now that they have matured and are ripe with ideas we have left them unattended so that the fruits of our labor can fal and rot by the wayside. Let us get a grip of the bull’s reigns before they go trampling through the fields and damaging the crops of all that’s left in our coffer.  Let us be the change we need. Let us not as a government but as citizens of this our island nation, redirect our energies towards a better state. A good education has always been propagated as the key to a prosperous and productive existence for all. Let us practice what we have preached and embrace our own rhetoric’s for a change.