Essays on Jamaica

The documentary and adaption film, Life and Debt concretize the problematic and chaotic economy and social system of Jamaica, post-colonial time. The film, Life and Debt embodies some excerpts from a well-popular non-fiction text, “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid, stories of individual Jamaicans, and...

Both authors, Srnieck and Bonacich and Wilson, tell us about the emergence of global firms, whether it be through platforms, such as Uber, or large logistics firms with global supply chains like Wal-Mart. Global firms can be described as companies that operate in multiple countries...

The Ministry of Health Jamaica in its National HIV/STI Program(NHP) confirms that the spread of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has doubled among women compared with males between the late 90s and 2011(Ministry of Health Jamaica, 2011). These...

Having a job that pays well enough to support their basic needs is what most of my peers wish for in the country where I am from. I am from Jamaica, most people who just heard of my country always has the best things to...

The Andrew Holness led administration was under extreme pressure after over 1300 murders were recorded in 2016, the highest for the last five years. Hence, a crime plan was initiated which focused on lowering criminality and using social intervention to curtail the issue, the Zone...

Everyone is going electronic! And this includes the Health Industry worldwide, and with the advent of health providers turning to more convenient, cost effective ways of storing and accessing patients medical information, it only makes sense that agencies would seek to make sure that this...

Life and Debt, a film by Stephanie Black shows the bad side of Jamaica that tourists and foreigners don’t get to see on their day to day life. The bad side being the economy and what it has done to the citizens of the country....