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"In this milieu, we must find a new way to engage, integrate and involve all Jamaicans, including the diaspora, into our emerging society that now transcends global borders and makes us a people of more than five million Jamaicans worldwide. We must avoid the shallow platitudes that have shaped our engagement with the diaspora in recent years and come to grips with the insider-outsider conflict faced by Jamaicans in the diaspora and those who have returned to serve our land. Speaking from personal experience, after five years of returning to serve my country in an idealistic and patriotic exercise, there have been barriers and impediments to full engagement in the opportunities in our society that I and other returning residents are yet to overcome, notwithstanding steady but slow progress.
Much of this arises out of attitudinal resistance to returning residents by those who remained over the years and this contributes to slowness in technology transfer, adoption of new ways of thinking and doing business. It is important to note that I have never held foreign citizenship, despite a lengthy stay abroad. It is opportune, therefore, to speak on behalf of the Jamaican diaspora and to demand that we use this unique opportunity presented by a resounding mandate to swiftly remove some legal and other obstacles that block their engagement in our governance and full participation in our economy.
We must create mechanisms and pathways to utilise the full inventory of talent, intellect and resources of this global Jamaican community to create the Jamaican social and economic miracle; something other countries such as Israel and India have done successfully".
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Much of this arises out of attitudinal resistance to returning residents by those who remained over the years and this contributes to slowness in technology transfer, adoption of new ways of thinking and doing business. It is important to note that I have never held foreign citizenship, despite a lengthy stay abroad. It is opportune, therefore, to speak on behalf of the Jamaican diaspora and to demand that we use this unique opportunity presented by a resounding mandate to swiftly remove some legal and other obstacles that block their engagement in our governance and full participation in our economy.
We must create mechanisms and pathways to utilise the full inventory of talent, intellect and resources of this global Jamaican community to create the Jamaican social and economic miracle; something other countries such as Israel and India have done successfully".
Full 100:
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...us/focus6.html
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