What Opportunities Are There to Reinvent the Caribbean? Guyana’s Oil?

The discovery of oil in Guyana and the investment and development in financial technology by young professionals may provide the answers the Caribbean needs to reinvent itself. Michael Manley and Edwards Seaga may have found a socio-political remedy through capitalism or Marxism. Later Bob Marley their contemporaries promoted a new religious consciousness saying they look to a religious consciousness not […]

Caribbean Thought Lecture 4: What is Caribbean Thought and who determines this?

This is Lecture Four of The Course: Caribbean Thought a course at The Jamaica Theological Seminary, Lectured via Zoom recording by Rev. Renaldo McKenzie. It promises to be quite academic, ethnographic, and powerful as the students and Lecturer contend for the Caribbean and explore its challenges and explore solutions. We discuss Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad, Haiti, the US, the Slave […]

Black History: Reimagining Peoples Within Critical Race Theory, Not Thinking Race, but Moving Away from A Victim to A Hero Approach

Its Black History Month, and we are publishing a story in The Neoliberal Journals that was published in our Commentary via LinkedIn, The Neoliberal Commentary and our Podcast, The Neoliberal Round on March 21, 2022. We recently carried a podcast episode commenting on Florida’s ban on teaching students to “feel guilt” on history. It was also published as an article […]

Caribbean Diaspora Stories: Debt Mentors Working to Empower Single-Parent Moms in UK who are Debt Burdened

Caribbean Diaspora Stories Part 1: My sister Jeannette McKenzie-Taylor in the UK volunteers as a Debt Mentor who is working to relieve debt burdens on single-parent moms. We will have her on The Podcast – The Neoliberal Round for an interview the work of Debt Mentors in the UK. You may read the article on the BBC News A story […]

Millions Stolen From Usain Bolt. A Case of “White-Collar Crimes” in Jamaica

I understand from the students in my Caribbean Thought Class at the Jamaica Theological Seminary that twelve million dollars was stolen from Usain Bolt’s account in a Jamaican Financial Institution; a case of the White-Collar Crimes. (Usain Bolt is the Jamaican-sprinting sensation who is a two-time world record holder at 100m and 200m distances/UsainBolt.com) A student from the class asked […]

What will End Violence? Boys Need for Positive Influences And The Monterey Park Massacre

This article was first published as a Podcast episode and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. The Neoliberal Round Podcast on Anchor.FM   If the fallen can’t perceive of anything better, then what will upend violence? The history of violence done to them debilitates their capacity for eureka! (“Eureka comes from the Ancient Greek word εὕρηκα heúrēka, meaning “I have found […]

Corruption in Jamaica: Who is to be blamed for the Caribbean’s Demise?

There has been much talk about Corruption in Jamaica with the rise of the “White-Collar Crimes or theft” in Jamaica. Recently, Janie McEwan submitted a Letter to the Gleaner, which was “Letter of the Day on January 18, 2022, defining White-Collar Crimes, from a sociological perspective, as a product of the societal and cultural norms that shape the behavior of […]

Ending Period Poverty, Shelly-Ann Weeks and HerFlow Foundation

Introduction Period poverty is defined as “inadequate access to menstrual hygiene tools and education, including but not limited to sanitary products, washing facilities and waste management. While the term period poverty is relatively new in medical literature, menstrual hygiene management has been discussed for decades in the context of the gender gap in education for youth living in low- and middle-income […]

Capitalism, Organizational Dynamics and the Church: Is Bigger Better?

This is part of a Lecture Presentation I gave at Jamaica Theological Seminary and University of Pennsylvania and an excerpt of the book Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered, an upcoming Book Written by Adjunct Lecturer, Rev. Renaldo McKenzie with Contributions from Professor Emeritus, Dr. Martin Oppenheimer   Preface Work under monopoly capitalism has experienced significant transformation that has concentrated greater control at […]

Redistributing Income to the Poor, Towards Sustaining Development: Social Assistance in Jamaica and the United States of America

This paper is part of a thesis Written by Renaldo C. McKenzie in partial fulfillment of his Master of Philosophy in Liberal Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, published in 2011, updated with an extended conclusion April 2022. This paper is published as part of a series of paper that will be presented as Jamaica celebrates sixty (60) years of […]