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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

What is Critical Thinking? Overcoming Creative Blocks in A Critical Thinking Career

Here’s how you can overcome creative blocks in a critical-thinking career. By continuing to think critically; exposing oneself to, and engaging in critical exchanges that help to utilize critical thought and the resources available to critical thinking. Critical Thinking is not static but is a dynamic process that is ongoing and ever open to change. It seeks the truth, as […]

You Cannot Fix the Immigration Problem, Without Addressing the International Competition Between and Among Countries that makes Rich Countries Richer and Poor Countries Poorer.

Harry Enten wrote an article in CNN Politics entitled “Why Biden has an Immigration policy problem”. According to Eten, “The issue is one of the first that puts Biden and his administration between a rock and a hard place. It’s not clear looking at the data how to politically deal with the issue. For one thing, a flow of illegal immigration across […]