{"id":7984,"date":"2017-10-06T12:36:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2017-10-06T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:42:07","slug":"guest-column-total-eclipse-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/guest-column-total-eclipse-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"GUEST COLUMN: Total Eclipse of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Dr James Knight MD,MA<\/em><\/p>

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Eclipse time again. Not the partial eclipse of the sun\u00a0on Monday, August 21st. Once more, we have a student with a ridiculous number of CSEC passes, 13 of them grade ones.\u00a0There were 8,803 entries from the public and private secondary\u00a0schools, with an overall percentage pass of 73.3, according to reports. It is also said that 1,594 of our Antigua and Barbuda State College students sat the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exams (CAPE) this year, with 82 percentage pass. Epicurean and those other large supermarkets must be happily awaiting the fresh set of cashiers and baggers.<\/p>\n

Mango Ripe \u2013 Mango Sweet<\/strong>
\nBut what about those who didn\u2019t do well in CAPE?\u00a0What about those who didn\u2019t do well in CSEC? I guess\u00a0they can pack the shelves. In what direction have we\u00a0moved since the first public secondary school was\u00a0opened in Antigua in 1955?<\/p>

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When I entered that school exactly 50\u00a0years ago, it had a technical department, a\u00a0woodwork centre, laboratories, and wonderful landscaping; and it was the hub of A-Level\u00a0(sixth form) studies on the island. I could not imagine back then, that we would be so utterly\u00a0helpless today, especially since I was growing\u00a0up with a father whose ideas for our human and\u00a0economic development seemed so logical and straightforward.<\/p>

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Today, while we boast of the CSEC and CAPE passes, an extraordinary mango crop is rotting on the ground, and\u00a0many so-called successful students are going to work in supermarkets where the shelves are packed with mango juice drinks, imported from perhaps as far as the Mediterranean, along with imported artificial mango drinks, artificial mango drink powders and icicles. There are even jars or cans of imported mango slices. According to King Short Shirt: \u201cSometimes, I feel like I want to scream, and scream, and scream \u2026\u201d\u00a0This is the qualification for being a backward society,\u00a0no matter how much we consume and how glamorous we\u00a0are.<\/p>\n

Cut Grass<\/strong><\/p>

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Back in the early seventies, when unemployment was\u00a0high, for one reason or the other, and at the same time, black consciousness and pride were on the rise, paving the way for the local Rastafarian movement, people often complained that the young people were simply\u00a0lazy and up to no good. The older folks came up with the name \u201crasco\u201d for young people who had locks, especially those who were unemployed.<\/p>\n

Many of those called \u201crasco\u201d (a close approximation of rascal) were young men especially, but also some young women, who had completed secondary school and even had a few subjects. King Sugar had collapsed and no modern productive activity had replaced it to absorb the new educated generation into the economy.<\/p>

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So what did the older people tell those young unemployed? They told them that they didn\u2019t really want work to do, because if they really did they would have cut grass. \u201cHow you mean no work dey fu do, and so mucha grass dey fu cut?\u201d After going through secondary school, cutting grass was the most noble economic activity that could be suggested for many young people, some of them with \u201csubjects\u201d.<\/p>

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Today, almost half century after, penniless young people with secondary education are being told that they need to get up and create something to do. They should be entrepreneurs. After all, they have passed Principles of Business, Office Procedures, Electronic Document Preparation Management and Principles of Accounts. They should get together and print some business cards, hand out some flyers; use social media to advertise. They should start with a couple of weed whackers, then eventually get a little pickup truck.\u00a0They could get contracts. In other words, \u201ccut grass\u201d.<\/p>\n

Clothes and Food\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then the UPP came to power, it hurried to fulfill a\u00a0last-minute election promise to provide free school uniforms. Then later, school meals. There was absolutely no thought put into the implementation of either program, no plan for sustainability and maximum social and economic benefit. They have all but collapsed.<\/p>\n

There we had a marvelous opportunity for setting the stage for major productivity in this country. In every corner of Antigua , and in between, there are people who can make clothes. Government refused to entertain the suggestion of assisting groups of persons in various communities to set up small production units for producing uniforms for a guaranteed market \u2013 the government.<\/p>\n

The Antigua and Barbuda Development Bank could \u00a0have\u00a0been used to assist the setting up of these units, with the several million dollars that were used simply to buy uniforms mainly from the big guys. All the Principles of Business, the Principles of Accounts, and
\nthe Office Procedures of the young people, along with the sewing skills, could have been harnessed for the venture.<\/p>\n

The very government that was the guaranteed
\nmarket for the uniforms could not have expected the venture\u00a0to fail. The people with the skills were saying to\u00a0government that they needed their backing. They needed\u00a0the government especially to import the cloth
\nand the accessories in bulk, so that they would be more\u00a0economical. After all, only the big guys could do that. They were brushed aside, told that government just wanted to buy, not to be involved. The big guys triumphed.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine how much difference a uniforms industry\u00a0would have made in the economy of Antigua? Almost everybody wears uniforms in Antigua, starting with\u00a0preschool. Security companies buy uniforms overseas. Hotel workers wear uniforms; airlines wear uniforms; the police, the military, etc..<\/p>\n

But the schools also use sports shorts, tee shirts, backpacks, etc. Yes, backpacks that people make here are\u00a0superior to many bits of cloth marked Kipling.<\/p>\n

Young people trained and employed in the uniforms industry, in whichever part of Antigua, would have got\u00a0competitive, and with so many young aspiring designers\u00a0and \u2018fashionistas\u2019 these days, some of them\u00a0quite promising, there is no telling where their creativity\u00a0and energy would have taken the clothing industry\u00a0in this country. Several certainly could have branched\u00a0out to create independent economic activity and\u00a0job opportunities. That is how economies are built.<\/p>\n

We even import straight stitch into Antigua. Sheets and\u00a0pillow cases for our hospital and clinics, and even towels, are nothing but bits of fabric cut in a straight line, with a straight stitch around the edges. We can\u2019t do\u00a0that?<\/p>\n

Then there is food. If you want the nation to be
\nhealthy, teach the children to eat healthy food. If you\u00a0want to guarantee healthy food, produce it.<\/p>\n

That should have been the driving policy behind the school\u00a0meals program. With emphasis on agricultural production\u00a0and small agro-industry, eventually, we\u00a0would have been well poised to ignore all that unhealthy\u00a0and unnecessary imported junk on 75% of the\u00a0supermarket shelves, and that being sold around our schools. We import sugar water with dye and our children\u00a0suck it up. What a waste; what a danger.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t we take away the dozens of types of watery apples\u00a0in the supermarket and replace them with a\u00a0good rich guava or two?Pomegranates\u2019, custard apples, cashews, sour sops, sugar apples, large dumps, packages of seaside grapes? Then vegetables of all sorts at affordable prices? Well, not if we plan to use reverse osmosis water for agriculture. That would be too expensive. Again, government would have to be serious about agriculture.<\/p>\n

So we are down to one uniform per student for years now, even if imported; and we had better make sure we\u00a0have a second one ready in case we get it smeared with\u00a0the school meal hot dog.<\/p>\n

Throw Them the Keys<\/strong><\/p>\n

Watches are sent to other islands\u00a0for repairs. How many\u00a0people do we have maintaining\u00a0air conditioners?<\/p>\n

Auto mechanics is not a field\u00a0for the school dropout anymore. A\u00a0friend of mine got a job\u00a0to teach automobile electricity\u00a0at the State College.<\/p>\n

Whoever planned the course completely\u00a0left out any lab\u00a0time. No arrangement for\u00a0practical experience whatsoever. Somebody in that institution is not serious about empowering\u00a0our young people. There\u00a0seems to be no vision whatsoever, beyond \u201csubjects\u201d; no interest in objectives nor\u00a0objects. Young people are not being guided as to the\u00a0many practical fields of endeavour which would make\u00a0their lives productive and fulfilling, and would help\u00a0to build a national economy. For years I warned publicly that we had one aging locksmith on the island. He\u00a0died suddenly.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, our leaders continue the search for Big Foot\u00a0to come and invest and take away all our cares. It is\u00a0taking them very long to realize that we have been left\u00a0on our own, now that we are no longer relevant to Europe\u00a0as slave holdings or as colonies, nor to North America, now that there is no Cold War in which they
\nwant our support. We have to invest in ourselves for our\u00a0own human and social development. We have to build\u00a0our own national economies within a regional framework. We have to invest local capital in our economy, with government backing.<\/p>\n

Big Foot is not even coming and\u00a0doing what we wish, even when\u00a0we sell him a passport. As\u00a0a matter of fact, when we think\u00a0we have Big Foot, he turns\u00a0out to be Chupacabras (the Goat Sucker) demanding even\u00a0more in concessions
\nthan he pays in salaries. Meanwhile\u00a0people come from\u00a0far across the seas to compete\u00a0with our humble shopkeepers, snack vendors, tyre\u00a0repair men, etc. It seems that\u00a0the Antigua and Barbuda souvenirs\u00a0and the many electronic gadgets made in China\u00a0cannot be made in Antigua, even by Chinese.<\/p>\n

CSEC and CAPE are fine. But what about real
\npreparation for a vibrant economy with great
\nopportunity in a wide range of endeavours in which young\u00a0people may exercise creativity and productivity and\u00a0feel a sense of fulfillment. Let\u2019s throw them the keys\u00a0to a brighter future so we may all get out of this total\u00a0eclipse.<\/p>\n

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