Are we looking through the same lens?
Some of us need to stop viewing everything through the filter of color. Pretending that problems don’t exist—or that things are better than they are—is not a recipe for progress. Until we hold the right people accountable, real improvement will remain out of reach.

It saddens me deeply that Jamaica, the so-called Gem of the Caribbean, continues to fall behind smaller island nations that now enjoy higher living standards. A simple online search shows the reality: Jamaica has some of the lowest wages and the highest rate of brain drain in the Caribbean, second only, perhaps, to Haiti, which is currently embroiled in a civil war.

I take no joy in saying this, and I don’t care which political faction holds power—because at the end of the day, parties were created as tools of division and distraction from inequality. To act as if everything is fine when the numbers tell a different story, is simply delusional.

Jamaica deserves better. We need to aspire to the trajectory of nations like Singapore—but clearly, the blueprint we’re following right now is not working.