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<In a meeting of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and in a separate interview here, Manley spoke about Jamaica's social problems, drugs, Cuba, and the Caribbean.
``We made a very serious mistake in allowing a sort of anger with US pressure'' to build up over Jamaica's relationship with Cuba, Manley says. ``An important part of my strategy that was not perceived by Washington was economic relations with the region - and that included Cuba.''
If elected, Manley says he plans to restore diplomatic ties to Cuba, but will keep them lower-profile. In other words, we probably won't see Cuban construction brigades building Jamaican schools, as happened during his earlier watch.
During his years out of office, during which he wrote a lengthy volume on cricket and has served as vice-president of the Socialist International, he traveled frequently to the States.
Now his relations with bankers and government officials here are ``infinitely better,'' he says.
Manley is also prepared for a more constructive relationship with the Jamaican private sector, which will include efforts to promote small business. His failed attempt to create state communal farms will remain a memory.
``You scratch every Jamaican under the skin and you'll find an entrepreneur dying to get out,'' he says. ``It took us [social democrats] a long time to understand this.''>
Di man did lack understanding (as extolled by Lee Kuan Yew after a 2 week visit) and brought about his and the countries demise.. ADMITTEDLY SO !
So update unnuhselves and guh find someting else fi defend..
``We made a very serious mistake in allowing a sort of anger with US pressure'' to build up over Jamaica's relationship with Cuba, Manley says. ``An important part of my strategy that was not perceived by Washington was economic relations with the region - and that included Cuba.''
If elected, Manley says he plans to restore diplomatic ties to Cuba, but will keep them lower-profile. In other words, we probably won't see Cuban construction brigades building Jamaican schools, as happened during his earlier watch.
During his years out of office, during which he wrote a lengthy volume on cricket and has served as vice-president of the Socialist International, he traveled frequently to the States.
Now his relations with bankers and government officials here are ``infinitely better,'' he says.
Manley is also prepared for a more constructive relationship with the Jamaican private sector, which will include efforts to promote small business. His failed attempt to create state communal farms will remain a memory.
``You scratch every Jamaican under the skin and you'll find an entrepreneur dying to get out,'' he says. ``It took us [social democrats] a long time to understand this.''>
Di man did lack understanding (as extolled by Lee Kuan Yew after a 2 week visit) and brought about his and the countries demise.. ADMITTEDLY SO !
So update unnuhselves and guh find someting else fi defend..
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