Leaders On Paper Only

They say they are managers

They say they are directors

They say they are leaders

Paper title leader

Their jobs are never advertised

An interview is not necessary

They are the only job candidate

Paper title leader

Their experience is not important

Their skills are not necessary

Their education is never questioned

Paper title leader

Prime minister connection

Government minister connection

Corporate connection

Family connection

Friend in high places connection

Paper title leader

Inexperienced practices

Frequent mistakes

Uncertain decisions

Challenging tasks

Unsatisfactory  results

Paper title leader

Dr. Joan Campbell - copyright 2014

Jamaica - Land Of Frustrating Government Red-Tape

Get ready to fight tooth and nail
to do transactions
Be prepared to jump over hurdles and through hoops
to accomplish transactions
Be prepared to climb mountains
to get a logical responses
Back and forth...forth and back
It's the system...the government system

Clearing a barrel?
Go up a top,
Go down bottom
Go back up top
Go back to bottom
Back and forth...forth and back
It's the system...the government system

Lose a car title
Go to the police,
Go to the insurance agency
Go to the fitness office
Write a letter
Tomorrow get ready for new procedures
Back and forth...forth and back
It's the system ...the government system

Publish a children's book
Send the book to American Ivy League universities
Receive immediate warm reactions
Send the book to the Jamaican Education Ministry
Nobody can account for the whereabouts of the book
Nobody knows the ministry's reactions

Nobody knows anything

Back and forth...forth and back

It's the system...the government system

Starting a business

Sending Items for the needy

Returning to reside in Jamaica

Making an investments

Importing items

Exporting Items

Red tape...bureaucracy

Incompetency...impersonal...unfriendly...uncaring...condescending

Back and forth...forth and back

It's the system...the government system

Dr. Joan Campbell - copyright 2014