did busta mash up jamaica?

[Tropicana]

Do you have independent confirmation of that?

How can you say the country was doing well when the majority of people were living in dire poverty, the illiteracy rate was sky high, white and light skinned had a privileged position, and a few families had most of the wealth?

[Tropicana]

Hugh Lawson Shearer - Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1967 to 1972.

While the Jamaica Foundation For Lifelong Learning (JFLL) was first established as the National Literacy Board in 1972 - later becoming the Jamaican Movement for the Advancement of Literacy (JAMAL) in 1974, then the Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning (2006) - the effort to eradicate illiteracy in Jamaica has its roots in pre-Independence Jamaica.


The Laubach 'each one teach one' system was introduced in 1943. It was followed by an intervention by the Jamaica Social Welfare Commission - now the Social Development Commission. The commission's efforts eventually received government funding in 1954.


Created in 1970, The Literacy Evaluation and Planning Committee - with support from UNESCO - marked a turning point in the government's adult literacy policy.

Okay that was on Shearer's watch but...

At a time when bauxite mining and manufacturing were prosperous economic players, the committee found that approximately 500,000 Jamaicans, or 40 per cent, over the age of 15 were illiterate. The stage was well set for a major developmental thrust in adult education. In 1972, The National Literacy Board took on the task.


Among its earliest challenges were high dropout rates among students and teachers alike, staff shortages, a substandard quality of teaching, and the need for student-evaluation methods.


JAMAL's MANDATE


In 1974, the organisation emerged from a period of restructuring to overcome its challenges with a new name: JAMAL. There were three simple mandates:


1. Eradicate illiteracy in Jamaica in the shortest time possible;


2. Improve the literacy skills of the adult population of Jamaica;


3. Develop human resources to enable each adult citizen to participate meaningfully in the social, economic, and cultural development of the country.


To approach this deceptively simple task, JAMAL devised a network of adult educational centres (AECs) throughout all 14 parishes. These centres now number 31. The teaching staff largely comprises volunteers. While the AECs thrived, a strong spirit of community and a sense of national urgency led to the establishment of volunteer AECs run by churches, communities, and NGOs that now number 100.


The JAMAL Foundation met with significant success, with over 248,000 learners achieving literacy by 1989. This dramatic performance was reflected in the national literacy rate moving from 68 per cent in 1975 to 82 per cent in 1987. Trained volunteers exceeded 20,000.


Reflecting the national priority of literacy of the day, the JAMAL Foundation was sufficiently funded to take its interventions on air with televised programming, including the JAMAL Literacy Quiz show in which learners were able to compete in a format very similar to the popular Schools' Challenge Quiz.


All this activity did not go unnoticed, with UNESCO awarding the Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize to JAMAL in 1989 for its work in adult literacy.




Over time, however, the changing Jamaican economy dictated a realignment of national funding, which reduced the funding available to JAMAL during the 1980s and '90s. Despite the challenges, both the foundation and the Ministry of Education continued with programmes to address literacy in both the non-formal and formal education sectors.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130122/news/news4.html

[RichD]

Do you have independent confirmation of that?

How can you say the country was doing well when the majority of people were living in dire poverty, the illiteracy rate was sky high, white and light skinned had a privileged position, and a few families had most of the wealth?

you said

If the country was doing well economically when he took over but declined after that, doesn't this tell us something?

[Tropicana]

Let's see what the data tells us:





Need to find data that goes back further.

[RichD]

For 1968-1972, our annual GDP growth rate was 3.5 per cent greater than the world average, and our murder rate increase per annum was .2 per cent less than in the US.

[Peasie]

I think we need a lot more research on this

[RichD]

I think we need a lot more research on this

[Tropicana]

So the economy as a whole was doing well.

So do you think the average Jamaican was better off in 1972? Do you feel is Manley mash up Jamaica?

I don't think so.

The rich people were living it up, tourists were enjoying themselves, the White and light skinned people enjoyed a position of privileges.

What about the average Jamaican?

What type of situation was the average man on the street facing?

[blugiant]

So the economy as a whole was doing well.

So do you think the average Jamaican was better off in 1972? Do you feel is Manley mash up Jamaica?

I don't think so.

The rich people were living it up, tourists were enjoying themselves, the White and light skinned people enjoyed a position of privileges.

What about the average Jamaican?

What type of situation was the average man on the street facing?

peeps a gawn like ja economic growth iss a rising tide ting wen awl da boats gitt lifted butt a latt aff boats nuh float

wat yuh mean by better awf

[blugiant]

you said

If the country was doing well economically when he took over but declined after that, doesn't this tell us something?

no

wat yuh tink itt shood tell uss?

[Tropicana]

peeps a gawn like ja economic growth iss a rising tide ting wen awl da boats gitt lifted butt a latt aff boats nuh float

wat yuh mean by better awf

Better off.....come come now.... no one needs to spell out what better off means. People are better clothed, fed, housed and educated than they were in 1972 but the economy as a whole has been facing significant challenges.

[Tropicana]

[Tuff Gong]

Do you have independent confirmation of that?

How can you say the country was doing well when the majority of people were living in dire poverty, the illiteracy rate was sky high, white and light skinned had a privileged position, and a few families had most of the wealth?

You mean 2014? What year and under whose administration would the not be so according to stats?
Why don't you (and those of your ilk), post some real stats (you know like from the Social and Economic survey?). Real numbers so we can compare, instead of regurgitated, unadulterated, Comrade propaganda?

[Tropicana]

Interesting Comparative Analysis though quite biased raises some valid points.

[Tropicana]

Check 2:10