When given a bad hand in a game of cards or dominoes, one has to do the best with the hand given until the next cycle of the game comes around. This bad hand will — if we allow it to — teach us how to strategise and work the game in the favour of our hand.
Let us think of Jamaica and our present predicament as a game in which we have been dealt a bad hand. Just like in a game, we cannot just roll over and play dead. We must play with the hand we have been given -- or in our case the hand we chose -- until the cycle comes around again.
The IMF will not solve our problems, Jamaicans know this and now the prime minister and the finance minister know as well. In order for our problems to be solved, we must use the pressure that we are under now with the bad hand to strategise and force ourselves to perform.
What happened to the talented people of the Caribbean? We have lost our way and we need to find our way back home. Policies (and the lack thereof) will not push the country into success. We, the people need, to find our creative souls and twist the game in our favour. We need to make more positive movies. There is a demand for them. We need to become inventors and not just remain extractors of products used to invent. Jamaica needs a new deal, but for now let us make the best of the hand we have been dealt.
Okeino Robinson
Greater Portmore
kingenglish97@gmail.com
Let's make use of the hand
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Let us think of Jamaica and our present predicament as a game in which we have been dealt a bad hand. Just like in a game, we cannot just roll over and play dead. We must play with the hand we have been given -- or in our case the hand we chose -- until the cycle comes around again.
The IMF will not solve our problems, Jamaicans know this and now the prime minister and the finance minister know as well. In order for our problems to be solved, we must use the pressure that we are under now with the bad hand to strategise and force ourselves to perform.
What happened to the talented people of the Caribbean? We have lost our way and we need to find our way back home. Policies (and the lack thereof) will not push the country into success. We, the people need, to find our creative souls and twist the game in our favour. We need to make more positive movies. There is a demand for them. We need to become inventors and not just remain extractors of products used to invent. Jamaica needs a new deal, but for now let us make the best of the hand we have been dealt.
Okeino Robinson
Greater Portmore
kingenglish97@gmail.com
Let's make use of the hand
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