Filing through all the negative news over the past couple days I heard multiple mentions of a new development plan for Jamaica.
I’m glad that finally there are moves towards a national development plan. Jamaica continues to fall behind the rest of our Caribbean neighbors and the world with barely any growth in our economy each year. I hope that this plan is not derailed by political divisions and uncooperative people. I’ll be following this issue closely in the months and years to come.
Jamaica’s 2030 Development Vision Article Excerpts
Jamaica’s 2030 Vision, which aims to catapult the island into developed country status by that year, is driven by a plan and an approach that is unique in Jamaica’s history of developmental planning.
The PIOJ Director General said that it would be the task of national leaders to “excite the people to join in working toward the ultimate objective of meeting the goal of developed country status by 2030″. He said that already a lot of material covering a wide range of areas has been developed and will be taken to people at all levels in communities across Jamaica for discussion and feedback. He said that the plan would not just focus on the quantitative but also on the qualitative-that is, aspects of our culture such as our food, speech, fashion, music etc. which make us uniquely Jamaican.
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