First 20 ways to fix Jamaica - Anthea McGibbon %

When travelling worldwide, Some Jamaicans get an appreciation for their homeland, while others simply want to scamper and keep on running. Interesting enough whenever Jamaicans become felons overseas, the Jamaican government welcomes them as deportees. Locally politicians vie for the lead in the polls for their party to ultimately be at the helm of government.

Regardless of which side of the fence you are on truth is where your navel string is cut, should be your best haven to rest as a Jamaican. It should pique your concern that while too many Jamaicans run, even more in number are the foreign nationals who lie in wait anxiously to take over.

Here’s a list of suggestions towards improving our nation to making it perfect.

1. Train all Jamaicans in quality customer service
2. Bring back Civics in schools
3. Outline the duties of police officers at courts example civil court for both civilians and police and monitor same closely
4. Ensure all Jamaicans can swim – making learning to swim compulsory for everyone found on the island
5. Do what it takes to give Jamaicans opportunity to travel esp to first world countries
6. Bond persons who get scholarships to study abroad with contracts to ensure they contribute at least five years to nation building on graduation
7. Put deportees to work by a special work programme such as to fix roads and farming
8. Better monitoring of lawyer-client relationships and laws governing same
9. Better policing of police-civilian relationships although with IPROB this is improving
10. Better arrangements for witnesses

Number 11-20 in ways to improve Jamaica

11. Get real psychologists
12. Train, monitor and gazette paralegals to do more non-attorney tasks such as research

13. Prioritise the preservation and promotion of authentic Jamaican culture among Jamaicans locally and abroad
14. Choose wisely and introduce fresh blood to do on-the-job training on the bailiff teams in courthouses such as Sutton Street. Qualities such as quick-witted, committed are a must
15.Rules of search to be more defined, and ensure all are subject to the same rules and policies to include staff workers otherwise its a sham
16.Control and prevent monopoly of teaching at the primary level of education.
17. Reduce and eliminate the growing business of administration of the actual curriculum as extra lessons, while teachers teach non-curriculum topics during the day
18. Teachers should be monitored and constantly assessed on interaction with all students as they do find ways to target and hold back students to promote their select fan club
19. All teachers should be appraised of, knowledgeable of and be made to uphold all laws governing how they relate to minors.
20. Ensure the classroom, methods of teaching, material and lessons are not teacher-centred, but student-centred and teachers should not be holding out material as top secret from select students

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