The Inclusive Agenda

  Technology, and the Conscious Existence A Sustainable Prosperity Agenda for Black Populations of the Caribbean     The Inclusive Agenda                                                                                            January 30, 2021     I picked up my weekly reading of Scientific American this morning and found an article titled: ‘Inspired Choice’: Biden Appoints Sociologist Alondra Nelson to Top Science Post.   I too am inspired by this development. One of the real blind spots in the fight against racial inequality or the pursuit of racial equity is a lack of cognitive awareness and knowledge surrounding the impact of technology on the lives of Black people.   Nelson says, “I think that if we want to understand anything about science and technology, we need to begin with the people who have been the most damaged, the most subjugated by it...”     The intersection of science, technology, and social inequalities is u

  The Real Economic Costs of Inefficient Institutions, Political Systems, in the Caribbean     The Inclusive Agenda                                                                                                       January 19, 2021   In mid-2020, Alan McIntosh, founder of Emerald Investments, sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Barbados in which he advised people not to invest in Barbados.   The letter appeared soon after the Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley appeared in a Business Post article, and on TV promoting increasing economic links between Ireland and her country.   Mottley also appeared on Irish radio and numerous other forms of media to talk about her "work from Barbados" scheme.   Copies of the letter were also sent to multiple media outlets in the UK, “The Times”, “The Independent”, “Sunday Independent Ireland” and more, and of course, the story made its way onto social media: Twitter and Facebook, buildi