Part III Turning The Corner - What WIll It Take

Contributed

Parts 1 and 2 explored the broad contours of Jamaica’s progress and the mindset shifts behind our successes. But turning the corner requires more than reflection; it requires action.

The path forward is complex. It will depend on improvements in education, expanded income opportunities, affordable housing, accessible healthcare, and stronger social protection. Above all, it will require credible leadership capable of shaping a vision of peace, security, progress, and shared prosperity.

Changing mindsets is not easy. But consistent, clear, and universally understood communication can build belief. Jamaica needs a new national dialogue, one that focuses on vision, purpose, and results, not rhetoric; one that focuses on tangible outcomes, not speeches.

We must:

• Communicate more, and communicate better
• Build capabilities that support the vision and results
• Share progress in forms that people can see, feel, and trust
• Celebrate wins in ways that include everyone 
• Build a movement where every Jamaican feels included, valued, and invested

A movement where success is not something that happens to the people but something that happens with the people.

If we can align aspiration, communication, participation, competence, and trust, then Jamaica can indeed turn the corner.

Many, though declining, remain resolute in the belief it will happen. After all, we have been successful before. As JamaiCANs, together we can 

Peace and love.

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Contributed by Devon Rowe

Devon Rowe OD

Devon Rowe is a career public servant and university lecturer who received his BSc from the UWI and his MA from John F. He was the Financial Secretary at the Ministry of Finance & Planning in Jamaica.