Growth vs Development..

[Jawge]

Willi analyse it good, then
come to a conclusion. Look at what led to Sept.3rd

[Jawge]

Mo does UWI and UTECH
have a campus in St.James?

[Mosiah]

Check the Internet, Jawge. But let me leave you with this:

The Distance Education Centre currently operates in 16 countries and 30 sites throughout the caribbean.
The University of the West Indies Distance Education Centres Across The Caribbean

[Jawge]

Mo did you see where I said campus
and not virtual ones? Trust me UWI and UTECH would serve JA better
if they broken into small pieces. This huge thing sitting in KGN is not doing JA any good at all. The times have changed and if JA wants to avoid alienation; we have to move according to the terrian and what suits us best.

[Mosiah]

Are they virtual? Jawge, I am not going to do your homework for you. Again!

[Jawge]

Okay let me break it down. why don't
Mobay community college become a UTECH campus? There one can get all
that's available to UTech without making a pilgrimage KGN. Students could even attend some KGN lectures via distance learning.

[Mosiah]

Jawge, do some goddam research!!! What you are talking about exists already, maybe not to the extent we all would love, but it exists.

Come back home and give it the impetus it needs, Jawge!

[Jawge]

Nuh worry Bruce and
Audley wi tek care ah dat.

[Islandman]

If the 60s was hell, and I certainly agree that there was a lot of inequality and injustice and the growth did not reach all levels of society, how would you describe the 70s? Do you think the "right" modifications were made to correct this or did we tear down the whole building ?

Or maybe you think the whole foundation was such that it had to be torn down? If so did we replace it with something better?

[Don1]

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The world is round, not flat.

(Subbing for Maudib)

Had me puzzled .... until I saw the last line. heh, heh.

[Don1]

If the 60s was hell, and I certainly agree that there was a lot of inequality and injustice and the growth did not reach all levels of society, how would you describe the 70s? Do you think the "right" modifications were made to correct this or did we tear down the whole building ?

Or maybe you think the whole foundation was such that it had to be torn down? If so did we replace it with something better?

Every decade since slavery has been the living hell for the black masses of Jamaica, some more intense than others.

One of the saving graces of the 1970's was that spiritually, for the first time in our history many black people started to feel genuinely a part of society because of Manley's social revolution. Manley's flights of fancy squandered this opportunity for development.

Unfortunately he butchered the economics, played too many Cold War rhetorical games with the US.... leading to destabilization directed by that country and its local political supporters, disinvestment and capital flight by a skittish business class and ultimate failure of his model.

[Islandman]

Very fair analysis. That is how i see it too.

Maybe sometimes I am a little hard on Manley because I think he had such a great opportunity and it didn't have to turn out the way it did. It was not all his fault by any means, but I think even he in retrospect realised he could have handled the social revolution as you call it and its impact on the different areas society better than he did.

[Jawge]

The effects are lasting to
this day. Joshua was unable to complete what he started hence; we have nation with majority who lacks self belief, has little hope and is under educated. If Joshua was given sound advice on regional politics, Ja would be the model for this region. I think you are slowly coming to my point; who will return and awaken the people (the way Joshua did), let them feel that they are not inferior, let them feel that they can do anything (own businesses, be big time farmers etc) bruce? You and I know the answer to that. Time is running out and the longer the majority is be oppressed and kept uneducated, the shorter the time for JA in the new Global economy.

[Islandman]

The truly great leaders who can inspire and move an entire nation are not produced very often. They are few and far between.

Unfortunately we don't have the luxury to wait until the arrival of the new Messiah to come down from the mountains and lead the people into the Promised Land so we have to work with the best leaders that we have available and see if we can find our way out of the hell that we are in.

[Jawge]

This leader was given unto us
again but because the leader was born in Nazareth; we despised and schemed to crucify the leader. Bless.