Why was there no trial run of direct deposits, a solution floated during negotiations in July, October, and December 2025? While Cuba reportedly left some of those overtures unanswered, one must ask: where was the legislative tweak or the updated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to bridge the gap? Jamaica has the capacity to make such arrangements work for essential services. Instead, the government chose to wash its hands of the matter, leaving 277 specialists high and dry

Let us be clear: this is not an argument for cruelty, austerity, or technocracy without soul. It is an argument for adult seriousness. Small societies cannot afford cultural sludge. We do not have surplus generations to waste, nor slack decades to drift. Every cohort lost to low 'McGreror Gully and Taylor Land' standards is a compound loss. (Please refer to The Honourable Mr Desmond McKenzie who should, by now, be able to interpret what that means.) The Caribbean has no sh