Development Defined

Development is the process whereby other people are dominated and their destinies are shaped according to an essentially Western way of conceiving and perceiving the world. The development discourse is part of an imperial process whereby other peoples are appropriated and turned into objects. It is an essential part of the process whereby the “developed” countries manage, control and even create the Third World economically, politically, sociologically and culturally. It is a process whereby lives of some peoples, their plans, their hopes, their imaginations, are shaped by others who frequently share neither their lifestyles, nor their hopes, nor their values. The real nature of this process is disguised by a discourse that portrays development as a necessary and desirable process, as human destiny itself.

Vincent Tucker. “The myth of development: a critique of Eurocentric discourse,” in Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm (R. Munck & D. O’Hearn, eds), London: Zed Books, 1999.

The Next President of USA

Trenchtown ..................by Bob Marley

(scoop, scoop, scoop, scoo-doo;
Scoop, scoop wa-doo.)
Up a cane river to wash my dread;
Upon a rock i rest my head.
There i vision through the seas of oppression, oh-oo-wo!
Don't make my life a prison.

We come from trench town, trench town (trenchtown) -
Most of them come from trench town.
We free the people with music (sweet music);
Can we free the people with music (sweet music)?
Can we free our people with music? - with music,

> With music, oh music!

Oh-y, my head,
In desolate places we'll find our bread,
And everyone see what's taking place, oh-oo-wo! -
Another page in history.

We come from trench town,
Come from trench town;
We come from trench town.
Lord we free the people with music (sweet music);
We free the people with music (sweet music);
We free our people with music,
With music, oh music (oh music)!

They say it's hard to speak;
They feel so strong to say we are weak;
But through the eyes the love of our people, oh-oo-wo!
They've got to repay.

We come from (trenchtown) trench town;
We come from (trenchtown) trench town;
Trench - trench town (trenchtown).
They say, "can anything good come out of trench town?"
(trench - trenchtown)
That's what they say, (trenchtown); (trench - trenchtown)
Say (trench - trenchtown) we're the underprivileged people,
So (trenchtown) they keep us in chains:
"pay (trench - trenchtown) - pay - pay tribute to -" (trenchtown).
We come from (trench - trenchtown);
We come from (trench - trenchtown);
Just because we come from trench town.
Not because we come from trench town;
Just because we come from (trenchtown).

Minor Ranks Youth Club

Our Corner League Football - Organized Recreation

Remembering the 'Mighty Mouse'

O'Neil Gordon 'Collie’ Smith: 1933-1959

• Represented Kingston College in school boy cricket and Boys’ Town in Senior Cup
• Made his debut for Jamaica in 1955
• Played for Burnley in the British Lancashire League
• Smith’s batting record in 26 Tests reads 1,331 runs at an average of 31.69.
• Gary Sobers was injured in the car crash that killed Collie Smith
• “Collie Smith Drive” in the constituency of South St. Andrew is named after him

Source: http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060912/news/news2.html

Recording Our History