Structural Violence in Disguise, Inequality, Brain Drain and the bleeding of Jamaica!
Vol.2, No.9, April 16, 2025 .. #NorrisRMcDonald #TheBittaTruth #IMFDisasterCapitalism destroys Jamaica with half the population in severe poverty!
By DIJ, CRT
Teachers flee, nurses too, fed up
Civil servants tiad, waan give up
Di system wring dem dry, no lie – Not even wata leff inna dem yeye!
JAMAICA IS facing a quiet emergency. A humanitarian crisis wrapped up in glowing IMF reports and “macro-stability” buzzwords. But if you listen close past the headlines, past the graphs, what you’ll hear is the groaning of a people being crushed beneath the weight of inequality.
A greedy political ruling class, tainted by accusations of all sorts of malfeasance and the economic elites are thriving while the middle class and poor people at the bottom rung of the economic ladder are being ‘downpressed’.
This isn’t just a wealth gap, it’s a life-and-International Monetary Fund debt-death trap. This is a widening economic chasm where life expectancy is not even guaranteed for babies of the poor.
BABIES ARE DYING — AND NO ONE’S ACCOUNTABLE
In 2022, Jamaica’s infant mortality rate stood at 16.08 deaths per 1,000 live births. Neonatal deaths within the first 28 days were even higher, at 17.9. Prematurity and birth asphyxia are the biggest killers.
How’s that!?
Isn’t that a downright shame that our babies are dying because the system can’t even deliver the basics.
This is truly heartbreaking!
Poor Black Jamaicans are suffering racially and class-biased structural economic violence that is disguised as underfunding and “tough IMF budget decisions”.
Another thing of great concern is the rapid migration of skills.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness took office in 2019 and since then, the brain drain has gone from a slow drip, to a full-blown hemorrhage.
Over 4,000 nurses gone since 2019. More than 1,600 teachers resigned or migrated in 2023 alone. And tech talent? Being harvested like ripe fruit by Canada, the UK, and the US – often before graduation gowns even hit the ground.
Jamaica is now a training camp for foreign economies. We pay to educate them. They pay to extract them. And the government and money traders perhaps smile because there may be the expectation that remittances will go up, if and when these people send money back home to take care of families.
What a life! What a way to build an economy and society!
‘CAPITALISM GONE MAD’ – THEN AND NOW
And yet the government and its supporters boast about an economic growth that is leaving more than half the population behind.
‘Yeh man!’
But who is this economy really serving? Who’s eating? Who’s healing?
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