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Is the English speaking Caribbean.....

 
black 2021-03-02 13:24:29 

ever going to become anything other than a tourist destination?

We are not large enough or wealthy enough to lead the world in research and development of anything and thus, we are always, going to be on the consuming end of goods and services.

 
problemjay 2021-03-02 13:42:45 

In reply to black

Too many bright minds from the Caribbean leave their countries to live in America, Canada and Europe. The type of progress you want to see beyond the stereotypical land for tourist people will be difficult to achieve when most of our best creative minds are leaving for a so called better quality of life.

 
velo 2021-03-02 14:11:02 

to much insularity and nationalist pride is the reason like we saw this whole dust up with the vaccine given to t&t by barbados the trini medical officer could not bring himself to even thank the government of barbados

 
Casper 2021-03-02 14:17:40 

In reply to problemjay

Too many bright minds from the Caribbean, (who) leave their countries to live in America, Canada and Europe,
are seldom welcomed back enthusiastically if they decide to return, or even consider returning.

 
Halliwell 2021-03-02 14:27:44 

In reply to velo & Casper

Spot on
Mistrust, selfishness, ignorance, insularity, intimidation, insecurity.

 
culpepperboy 2021-03-02 14:32:07 

In reply to black

The English speaking Caribbean should be a hub for software development and tge provision of IT services.

 
black 2021-03-02 14:36:02 

In reply to culpepperboy

The English speaking Caribbean should be a hub for software development and tge provision of IT services


How so?

Can they compete with Asia, Europe and America?

 
Barry 2021-03-02 15:47:21 

In reply to black

We are not large enough or wealthy enough to lead the world in research and development of anything and thus, we are always, going to be on the consuming end of goods and services.

I beg to differ. SocaFighter had invented handles

cool

 
culpepperboy 2021-03-02 19:12:50 

In reply to black

By leveraging on what we have sea sand and sun. Software developers can work from anywhere in the world, so we should entice the developers to come here to work. As part of the package they should provide training to our people.

 
camos 2021-03-02 23:05:41 

In reply to black

we need to refocus education, Singapore and Hong Kong are two small places, we need to focus kids on STEM education and elect a few honest politicians.

 
johndom90 2021-03-03 02:08:15 

most of our best creative minds are leaving
In reply to problemjay

Lay it at the feet of the politic/sectarian interests that run these little dots and the inability
to have any form of macro perspective beyond getting re elected next five years. Across the board they have all
failed to capture, keep and nurture our creative minds.

....and ...

...we dwell on the sorry state of WI Cricket.

 
nitro 2021-03-03 09:53:15 

In reply to camos

elect a few honest politicians.


Mission Impossible.

 
nitro 2021-03-03 09:57:23 

In reply to black

The English Speaking Caribbean made the fatal choice of claiming independence from the English.
Even afterwards the British gave them special trade agreements but instead of putting their house in order such as improving efficiency they played popular politics. For example in the Sugar Industry they refused to go the route of mechanical harvesting and gave jobs to the masses as cane cutters.

 
TEMPER 2021-03-03 10:13:01 

In reply to black

WE HAVE CRICKET...THAT WILL Do...RUM AND CRICKET

 
michaelmax 2021-03-04 01:35:45 

In reply to camos
What is it with this overemphasis on STEM? Everybody can't be that. The countries EACH need to look at their respective strenghts and people talents and go from there. They also MUST prioritize EDUCATION all the way up to the tertiary level inclusive of postgraduate study.We also need to build an education system and economic system suitable to our contexts rather than trying some of the directions and pushes imposed on us by the North.

In Jamaica for example, it should be software/apps development/ tech, pharmaceuticals, creative industries: arts, music/film/tv sports, agriculture and agro-industry + niche manufacturing locally driven so the money stays in.It also means governments are going to have to be far more ACTIVIST and moving away from neoliberal dogma.

For the region as a whole more inter company and inter government cooperation and foster more South-South cooperation and trade. Not enough is done in this regard by governments nor private sector

 
johndom90 2021-03-04 02:01:03 

In reply to michaelmax

Deep vested interests will negate such outrageously simple ideas, building blocks towards national security. Forces from outside will also , not be receptive to the established order being challenged....from within and without.

 
Barry 2021-03-04 03:33:07 

In reply to michaelmax

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n Jamaica for example, it should be software/apps development/ tech, pharmaceuticals, creative industries: arts, music/film/tv sports, agriculture and agro-industry + niche manufacturing locally driven so the money stays in.It also means governments are going to have to be far more ACTIVIST and moving away from neoliberal dogma

This is STEAM.. lol lol lol lol lol cool

 
michaelmax 2021-03-04 17:47:04 

In reply to johndom90


What else is NEW? Radical changes are always opposed by vested interests without and within. The thing is what we have been doing has NOT worked. We have tried to muddle through, tinker around the edges by trying to follow some neoliberalism with some social welfare (and I'm speaking specifically about Jamdown here) but all we have done is stagnate.

 
michaelmax 2021-03-04 17:54:19 

In reply to Barry

Indeed it is but my view is that a Caribbean education system should revolve around our cultural systems ie music, dance, theatre, storytelling rather than the STEM/STEAM construct. So rather than have subjects integrate the functions of STEM, all subjects are taught through and revolve around our own cultural contexts so that school and schooling stops being so alienating our students. Education is about the human being and allowing that individual to be the best of himself or herself as a person while developing intellectually, socially,emotionally morally and spiritually. Instead school and education have become synonymous with training and giving corporates ready made employees whose training they don't have to pay for.

 
johndom90 2021-03-04 18:57:49 

In reply to michaelmax

agree with your thoughts. spot on.

The entire Caribbean should have been tightly interlocked ages ago, economically/politically...but for intellectual and political backwardness.

Reggie Dumas TT, stated as much in the early 70's which helped,shaped my formative....Lewis Bobb, CLR James, Beckford.


Down the years same has been espoused throughout the Caribbean by other similarly minded.

Here we are today , still pushing Northern theories of business economic models.

We r dialectic without ever being anywhere close to the shifting goalposts of capitalsm

 
michaelmax 2021-03-05 03:45:36 

In reply to johndom90

Yeh but this us what happens when there are political and business forces WITHIN the countries fighting against regionalism- looking at you JLP and had a former Jamaica Exporters Association president saying of their then refusal to look to export to the Caribbean and I quote: If you trade with poor people you get poorer.

That never seemed to stop the US, the Brits and now the Chinese to come to Jamaica to hawk THEIR goods and services.

Our regionalist leadership tried but when the very private sector that you would need to do this is so lacking in vision- what do you do?

Maybe post COVID is an opportunity for a re-set. Sadly the current government in Jamaica is unlikely to see anything beyond tourism and I don't yet where the current leadership of the Opposition is on these matters.

 
Fantom 2021-03-05 21:33:53 

In reply to Barry

big grin big grin big grin
michaelmax is good people