The popular song goes, “Simply the best better than all the rest”; comparing both candidates critically and consistently, under which political administration in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, were Bahamians more empowered, Is it under the Christie administration or the Ingraham administration? You often here those famous projected words of the the Bahamian people, “I voting for PLP”, or “I voting for FNM, others might may opt not to vote, stating neither has done a good job; both political parties have been ridiculed and scrutinized under a microscope. Although the Christie administration implemented good ideas for a better Bahamas, their promises were never fulfilled to the extent of the Ingraham administration. In this essay; I will discuss that the Ingraham Administration contributions to Bahamian society have in fact empowered the Bahamian people successfully. They were more consistent than the Christie administration and perhaps more productive; pledging an allegiance to the Bahamian people, ensuring that these benefits accrue to the young, the aged, and the infirm. Education is one of the most powerful tools and is a prime developing trait that any individual can attain. Under the Ingraham administration, Bahamians were advance through tertiary and secondary education. In regards to tertiary education, the Guarantee Educational loan was established in the year 2000 (reference). Many Bahamians have profited from the educational loan that the Ingraham administration implemented, some even call it a social savor; for it has opened the doors for many, with no class or status conditions. The ingraham administration made it possible for the average Bahamian to study abroad in England, Canada, and the United States; p... ... middle of paper ... ...tration imposed a duty free importation of construction materials to Inaguans, which came under the Family Island Development Act; along with duty free-importation on replacement furniture, household items, and vehicles under the Exigency order, providing documentation. The people of Inagua also received emergency loans to fix the damages to their homes and businesses. Under the Emergencey Relief Government Loan Guarantee Act, which was also created by the Ingraham administration in 1999, applicants who wouldn’t normally qualify for bank loans, were allowed funding in these instances. Mr. Igraham stated, “We will, as is our custom, continue to ensure the coordination of the delivery of assistance to the uninsured, the elderly, disabled and/or indigent especially for the repair and/or re-construction of primary residences seriously damaged by the hurricane”.(quote)
Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Vol. 4. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols.
Kincaid begins by pointing out to “you,” a tourist what is missing from Antigua in order to first make clear the reality that knowledge is not existent, valued, or accessible in Antigua. She illustrates “your” arrival, when she notes, “You are a tourist and you have not yet seen a school in Antigua, you have not yet seen the hospital in Antigua, you have not yet seen a public monument in Antigua.” But she abruptly interrupts this thought and continues in sarcastic and marked nonchalance, “what a beautiful island Antigua is—more beautiful than any of the other islands you have seen.” (3) Here, Kincaid demonstrates that knowledge is severely lacking or nonexistent in the land of Antigua by providing examples of physical manifestations of a well educated society that are not present. Knowledge is attained by learning information, data, and facts made available to children through education in schools. Knowledgeable people—educated children who grow up to be educated adults who have completed to several ambitious years of extra...
Norton, Katzman, Escott, Churacoff, Paterson, Tuttle and Brophy. A People and a Nation. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
“Jamaica’s a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.”(Michael Franti) In this paper, I will talk about the geography, the history of Jamaica, the people that live there now and that lived there in the past, the lifestyle of the society, and the society, like the government and economy.
Ehrenreich, Barbara. “Serving in Florida.” Rereading America. 9 th edition. Ed. Gary Colombo. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2013. Print. (267-280)
United States and Jamaica have many similarities such as they were both under British rule for several years, and they both elect officials to govern the country. However the differences between the two are quite vast when it comes to the quality of education, government, and healthcare. When the three are compared it is clear to see that in terms of where is a better place for a child to grow up the United States is a better place to be.
Political parties are the link between general society and the representative machinery of our government. In order for an effective democracy to be in place, these political parties must be continually operative in the functions that they carry out. They are vehicles in which groups of people as well as individuals work together to secure political power, and to exercise that...
Bethel through her engagement of tones that are satirical, sarcastic and pensive makes an effective argument as to the fluidity of the Bahamian national identity. Whenever Bethel describes people thinking that “one” thing describes the national identity she always uses a sarcastic tone referring to that viewpoint as “absurd”, “extol” or puts air quotes around worlds like “authentically Bahamian.” However, when she describes her viewpoint she has a pensive tone with use of inclusive language like ‘we’ or ‘our.” Two examples of this is when she says “we know not one identity but among them, landing now here, now there, as it suits us” and “we prefer to emphasis flux over fixity, change over stagnation.” Bethel is very sarcastic in her tone when describing Fox Hill she says that it is the “immutable symbol of Bahamianness,” and “the quintessence of our national spirit” and “like the statues in the square in the square or the straw market or the flag, a symbol whose meaning melts when you look at too long?” She is almost mocking Fox Hill because it is what many describe as the “ideal Bahamian identity.” Through the tone of satire she dispenses of this truth by continually showing that Fox Hill’s history is malleable and fluid always changing. Bethel builds the readers up to feel that we have found the marker of national identity but dispenses of this marker by showing that “travel is untethered, collective life is recognized to be made up of many different routes Identity can freely be regarded as a garden planted with trees, but as a sea spotted with islands, and one’s own reality as a series of migrations among them.”
Situated just south of Cuba in the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica is well known as a popular tourist spot and the birthplace of reggae music. Populated initially by native Arawak Indians, who gave the island its name, “land of wood and water (Jamaica).” However, this beautiful land’s almost pristine beauty was shattered by outbursts of violence surrounding the 1980 political elections. This fighting was sparked by the people’s mistrust of the ruling socialist party at the time. The reasons for this fighting and this mistrust are not simple, they are intrinsically tied to the island nation’s history from the beginning of its colonial period five hundred years before.
In the book Beyond Massa: Sugar Management in the British Caribbean, 1770-1834, by John F. Campbell, it’s main focus encompasses and revolves around issues surrounding slavery practices by using Golden Grove estate in Jamaica as a primary source during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author highlighted the slavery period of the sugar monoculture era, followed by the development of amelioration policies, to the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, and finally the failed industry in 1834. The book uses archival data which logically analyses, revises and modifies the historical ideologies, thus manifesting revisionist philosophies about sugar estates in the Caribbean region. It really sets the reader to have different insights and perspectives with respect to the managerial systems, hierarchical structure, political dimensions, social relationships and a relatively new field of analysis- the Human Resource Management strategies. This report seeks to discuss the ideas of color-class hierarchy, the role of gender and sex, the introduction of the Amelioration Act while analysing the role of slavery and Human Resource Management (HRM) and lastly the effectiveness of the writer’s work and it’s relation to the current course.
“It’s Better In The Bahamas”. This slogan advertises throughout the world to attract tourist. Is it really better in the Bahamas? Many articles on television and in the news paper address the issues in the Bahamian society. While many pay no attention to this dilemma, many Bahamians live in constants fear. Miss Bijoux a single parent lost her job two months ago. One night she lay down on her bed thinking of all the possibilities of obtaining a job. Deep in thought how is she going to care for her children, and how is she going to help her twelve year old pregnant daughter? Lost to the world her phone rings, hello she said the caller answer hi, is this Bijoux residence? I am calling from PMH (Princess Margaret Hospital). Mrs. Bijoux drop the phone and runs to her children’s rooms. When she reaches to her son’s room he was not there, she kneel down on the floor and recites a prayer “Lord please let my son be okay”. Immediately, she calls her family to pick her up and drive her to the Hospital. When she arrives at the hospital she saw her lifeless son on the ventilator in pulmonary distress with blood stains over his clothes. Without shedding a tear, she waited patiently for good news. Unfortunately, her son expires three hours later. Mrs. Bijoux is a victim of a drive by shooting in Nassau Village. While the Bahamas is battling against the economic crisis, the three major issues in the Bahamian society are crimes, unemployment and sexual abuse.
Education is generally seen as a formal process of instruction, based on a theory of teaching, to impart formal knowledge to one or more students (Cogburn, n.d.). Henceforth, individuals seek to acquire some form of schooling from pre-school through secondary school while others may go on to tertiary to better him or her in some way. A definition of education according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary is that education is “a process of teaching, training and learning, especially in schools or colleges, to improve knowledge and develop skills.” Where education in the common parlance has become a process of adding layers of one’s store of knowledge, the true aim of education is to call forth that which is essential to the individual (White, 2006). Furthermore, and according to Coombs and Ahmed 1974, education is a continuing process, spanning the years from earliest infancy through adulthood and necessarily involving a great variety of methods and sources. Education also involves inculcating in students distinct bits of knowledge; therefore education is an additive process (White, 2006). It adds to an individual as well as it adds to a country through the individuals who are and would have been or are being educated. According to a study conducted by Olaniyan and Okemakinde 2008, education creates improved citizens and helps to upgrade the general standard of living in a society. Furthermore, education plays a key role in the ability of a developing country to absorb modern technology and to develop the capacity for self-sustaining growth and development (Todaro and Smith, 2012).
West Indian Commission (1992) An Overview of the Report of the West Indian Commission: Time for Action, Barbados: West Indian Commission.
Sindney W. Mintz, “The Caribbean as a Socio-Cultural Area,” in M. Horowitz, Peoples & Cultures of the Caribbean (Garden City, N.J., 1971).
In this essay I am going to talk about Hamm’s conception of education which is broken down into three general uses of education, the Sociological use (E1), Institutional use (E2) and the General enlightenment use (E3). I will also critically discuss the three uses of education providing a distinct and compatible argument and also bring it to the South African schooling system.