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<IF nothing else comes of President Obama's recent visit to Jamaica, the inscription he left in that visitors' register at Jamaica House on April 09, 2015 [mistakenly dated April 10, 2015] is sufficient to retire and render archaic the 1975 remarks by the former prime minister of Singapore, the late Lee Kuan Yew, about Jamaica and Jamaicans.
The instant retirement of Lee's opinion of us as some "ticky-ticky" nation is important in preventing more of our young people from falling into a perpetual state of cynicism, particularly during these tough economic times when jobs are few and hope is low. The challenges notwithstanding, there are many things about our Jamaica, for which we can, and should, be proud.
Social changes, like economic changes, take time and require long-term view and stamina to accomplish, because none of it will happen overnight or outside of the peculiarities inherent to that place in which it must occur. Education, for example, is quintessential to both national development and economic sustainability, but education is a long-term endeavour and no other country knows this better than Singapore. Singapore's economic success emanates from the development of its most important resources -- its people. Although a little late off the starting block, Jamaica has been on the right path; successive governments have recognised that education is paramount. As a consequence of that realization, governments have been taking steps to correct the educational deficit.>
LOL !! WOIEEE !!!
No Baba.. some ah unnuh nuh need fi go back to Mama Africa... unnuh already living in De Nile !
lol !!!
The instant retirement of Lee's opinion of us as some "ticky-ticky" nation is important in preventing more of our young people from falling into a perpetual state of cynicism, particularly during these tough economic times when jobs are few and hope is low. The challenges notwithstanding, there are many things about our Jamaica, for which we can, and should, be proud.
Social changes, like economic changes, take time and require long-term view and stamina to accomplish, because none of it will happen overnight or outside of the peculiarities inherent to that place in which it must occur. Education, for example, is quintessential to both national development and economic sustainability, but education is a long-term endeavour and no other country knows this better than Singapore. Singapore's economic success emanates from the development of its most important resources -- its people. Although a little late off the starting block, Jamaica has been on the right path; successive governments have recognised that education is paramount. As a consequence of that realization, governments have been taking steps to correct the educational deficit.>
LOL !! WOIEEE !!!
No Baba.. some ah unnuh nuh need fi go back to Mama Africa... unnuh already living in De Nile !
lol !!!
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