Cultural Economy Specialist: SIDS/Global South; Policy; Media & Communication. Author. Farmer. Wanderlust-er. My Opinion!
Jamaica
Joined April 2009
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Me catching up with last week's news... and looking up "vassal" to improve my vocabulary... and finding out it has something to do with tief... I mean fief!
Remembering Brian!
Grinned @ champs drone shot. Remember 2002 World Jr Games. Host broadcast crew burst into loud cheers when producer Brian St Juste pushed a tape into the VT, told d operator to cue up d aerial shot taken courtesy of JDF Airwing, & director said, “roll VT”. #broadcasthistories
I thought it would be obvious to thinking people that following a 50 year wave of neoliberalism and its attendant cultures, that 21st century democratic socialism could NOT be anathema to enterprise.
Formalisation Weaponised: formalisation should not be a ruse, it should be a relationship. deborahhicklinggordon.substa…
The inability to distinguish a call for an emphasis on humanitarian soloutions to a historical ill; from permissivness of illegal activity, is frightening.
If our people can't think clearly, their actions will alway be opaque. Critical thinking is taught...and can be learned.
It is the song on my mind today... where, with an arts based education, murder can be figurative... ad #CoopersPen
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There is little difference between willful demolition of homes and wilful neglect of those who are victims of 'natural' demolition. We have a crisis of conciscience in this country and it is 'in a state of chronic'.
Creative Work is Work Too: Happy to see Collective bargaining on the uptick for CCI. Facilitating the structural, institutional fixes to the sector have been lacking for over ten years and are a part of the current underbelly of discontent in the sector.
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If I had a dollar for every expression of pride in Jamaica’s cultural output from a political stage, reminding what we have, what we can do, should do, and regret inot doing. I would be a gazillionaire. Yesterday was different.
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Taking note of the criminalisation of indigenous grassroots agricultural production in the same way that grassroots 'creative economy' production has been targetted and strangled through state implemented formalisation mechanisms. open.substack.com/pub/debora…
Tieri Kyaan Nyam: Why the SLB Shouldn’t Be Writing Jamaica’s Cultural Education Policy open.substack.com/pub/debora…
The PRSJ looks forward to a long and fruitful relationship with PRAG, built on collaboration, the exchange of ideas, and mutual support as we advance our shared profession across the Caribbean. Congratulations on your ground-breaking launch.
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When apathy makes way for Intifada.
#changingtides
How one cup of water can change Jamaica open.substack.com/pub/debora…
The cry is now at fever pitch “We have a skilled (and unskilled) labour shortage!”
Productivity and Skills Shortage in Jamaica. open.substack.com/pub/debora…
So,
No to Hatians!
No to Cubans!
Now no to Chinese?
What are the implications of these decisions beyond expedient economics?
Then:
Yes to Pedophiles
Yes to Rapists
Yes to Criminals.
That doesnt even amount to 'swapping black dawg fi monkey'. No racial epithets implied.
What a predicament. Resignation, dismissal or stay in place all will set a dangerous precedent.
#ethos
Eureka! Maybe it's a retiree skilled work programme being negotiated...but hmmmm, that won't help with the birth rate problem... bummer! Maybe we should start tourist centric retirement homes for American skilled workers... It would be an innovation!
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