Islandman , mi know mi can reason

[1of1]

how many of them were cold war battlefields?

[Muadib]

And how do you correct that ???

How were other countries in the region able to correct his and yet surpass us in the growth numbers since then ?

Relative to the rest of the region what were our non-growth numbers like ?

You make it seem that Jamaica was an anomaly amoung 3rd World/Developing countries at the time when it came to education and other social statistics..

Were they ?

[Hortical]

I have relatives who adored Manley, and some who are labourties for life. I have never heard a kind word from the labourities about Shearer, and most of dem say he was a poor leader who could not manage fi run the country and so had to step aside fi Seaga.

[Islandman]

Well, thats basically what i was trying to explain to Lazie, there were a lot of problems that did not show in the figures.

My older relatives used to tell me about how you unless you were light skinned foget about getting even an entry level bank job in those days. Not that I am not blaming Shearer for any of that, it existed before him.

When I saw this article the other day by John Rapley about Peru, it shows that this kind of situation is not that uncommon:

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...cleisure2.html


This environment is what allowed Michael Manley to capture the imagination of the people in a way that Jamaica has not seen before or since. If only he had not got himself surrounded by the far left extremists, things may have been different.

[Jawge]

One thing that we seem to forget is
that Ja benefitted from the Cuban revolution immensely (the embargo diverted all of Cuba's tourist dollars here). Please remember that Cuba was thriving in tourism than JA. Please do not say Ja did not benefit from the Cuban revolution, please look at this simple anology: If two stores are on the same block selling the same product and one goes out of business, it's obvious that the other store that is still in operation will gain a good amount of those customers.

Now guess what? the next store is about to reopen with a more highly educated workforce: this means most things they can fix, and do for themselves (hence keeping cost at minimum).

In shearer period the cold war was heating up; the island was mine for bauxite (these facts are must in discussing Ja's figures, to leave them out is foolhardy).

[Jawge]

wid yuh: Too much is in the Shearer thread so
I start a fresh.

Boss isn't there something wrong if our nation is posting double digits in its GNP but yet 55% of the populace is illiterate and sparodic riaots breaking
out based on wages and labour disputes? Poor analysis on Chang's part.