There is so much misinformation that we are bombarded with that I believe the Jamaican populace is confused. Political leaders are also helping to create the confusion. Many have very little respect for the truth. The traditional media houses seem to have adopted this 'eat a food' mentality due to the harsh economic realities of the time. Those in the intellectual class seem to be busy hustling to make a dollar, so they have very little time to think about what is happening to our beautiful country.
Years ago, sugar was king, banana was carrying the swing, and bauxite was an excellent weapon in the economic fight. What is now bringing in the gold? Tourism brings in numbers of people, but I don't see any gold being left behind.
No country can succeed where there is a high level of crime and corruption. The challenge with how we deal with corruption is that the emphasis is on political corruption, which I believe is at a low level. Very little attention is given to corruption in the private sector and the public sector. It would be interesting to know what percentage of our schools have been audited during 2025. Yes, we need to audit the Auditor General's Department and the Integrity Commission.
We have lost many entities that could make money for our country. One such entity is our national airline. The majority of revenue earned by that airline was foreign exchange. I will spend some time in this article and future blogs looking at Air Jamaica, the little piece of Jamaica that flew. We can learn from that experience in order to deal with our current challenges.
Let's look at some of the practices that cost us our national airline. Many extra pieces of luggage were put on the flights that were not paid for. There was no control over the number of tickets given by executives to their friends, business associates, and relatives.
At the airport, thousands of dollars were lost compensating passengers for lost luggage and lost items from luggage. When the plane landed, much of that luggage ended up in the garbage bins behind the carousel. The 'so-called' owners came for them after. Inside the baggage area, where customers' bags were supposed to be safe, people took things out of the passengers' suitcases and threw them in the rubbish bin to be retrieved later when the bins were removed. There was also a scam with the travel tax. I am told that the travel tax went into pockets.
Many of us cannot understand why we literally gave away those valuable slots in London. BA is still on that route, and they must be doing well. We had flights going to LA with a handful of passengers, and you wonder why. Were there other valuable commodities on board? We were dubbed at one time as 'Ganga Air'. At one time, we went as far as Germany. I wonder why? The airline had to pay thousands of US dollars when the planes were detained for carrying drugs. I wonder who those people were who used the airline to carry drugs.
We will talk more about Air Jamaica in the future and why it crashed. Our people must learn that when we tear down entities, it affects future generations and our country. Today's youngsters' hope of becoming a pilot or an avionics engineer has been dashed. He has to find a call centre job to earn a little pocket money. We no longer have a national airline. It's a shame.
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Younger jamaicans would never have a clue of what you talking about.
ReplyDeleteStories like this needs to be told
When people can defend the corrupt suggestion by Izat Buchanan you know that they don't understand how destructive corruption is. Another thing that we destroyed was our railway system. Now we are lamenting the amount of cars on the roads, traffic accidents and lawless taxi men. Wi cut off wi nose fi spite wi face.
ReplyDeleteThat railway system would make a big difference today.
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