Jamaica's ganja image bad for business

[Mosiah]

Jamaica's image bad for business
Sunday, September 14, 2014


Jamaica's image bad for business

BRAND Jamaica is awesome, but our business image has some serious catching up to do. To many people the world over, most Jamaicans smoke ganja, wear dreadlocks and listen to Reggae music all day. Jamaica for them readily conjures up the image of Bob Marley, the Third World's biggest music star, and Usain Bolt, the world's fastest runner.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/edito...d-for-business

[Sir X]

Wake im up fi mi ,its been the image from as far as i know, the question is do we capitalise on it or reject it,like we have been trying to do from as long as i know.


Kissteeth, im and di bredda Johnson a fren.

[Time]

Jamaica's image bad for business
Sunday, September 14, 2014


Jamaica's image bad for business

BRAND Jamaica is awesome, but our business image has some serious catching up to do. To many people the world over, most Jamaicans smoke ganja, wear dreadlocks and listen to Reggae music all day. Jamaica for them readily conjures up the image of Bob Marley, the Third World's biggest music star, and Usain Bolt, the world's fastest runner.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/edito...d-for-business

Really? It is probably good for tourism and we are more likely to have the resources to make money from tourism than from any other industry except legal or illegal ganja export! Where are the economist in this forum? Speak !

[Islandman]

The article wasn't really about the ganja image specifically still, it was about the overall laidback, "no problem" image.

Personally, I think our image problem due to crime and violence, corruption and a general lack of skilled workers is much more damaging to business investment than anything else. Sensible people investing serious money can differentiate between an image marketed to tourists and the environment in which serious business takes place.

[Sir X]

Escapism,lazyness,political incompetence,businesslack of leadership,any lack of leadership,nonprogressives,garrisonization,tribal war, all lay at the great ganja escape.

When will it end.

[Willi]

Poor article.

[Peter R]

You are kind...

[Historian]

Re: Poor article

Poor article.

While the article can probably be seen by some as a “poor article”, it nevertheless touches on the fundamental issues that have ensured that we have aways been failures (Marley and bolt aside), something that the rest of the Caibbean region long realized!!

The fact is that we have a laid-back attitude with poor work ethics (an attitude which inexplicably and dramatically changes when we migrate to foreign countries), corruption and slackness in the workplace, myopic trade unions, and most of all, unchecked crime and violence.

I trongly suspect that ten years from now – long after the Chinese have found alternative logistic site elsewhere -- these same posts will be made!!

Is our lot destined to be always struggles, hardship, myopia, corruption and crime?