A CONVERSATION WITH THE BRITISH COUNCIL?

https://earlyamericanists.com/2018/04/20/qa-with-daniel-livesay-author-of-children-of-uncertain-fortune-mixed-race-jamaicans-in-britain-and-the-atlantic-family-1733-1833/

A CONVERSATION WITH THE BRITISH COUNCIL?

- Deportation is a disaster for these people, who have lost pensions, homes, medical insurance.

- You deport them to a country that is very poor, with a hard pressed government system; that is a disaster for the country

- How does that help the British Commonwealth?

- Since labor costs are cheaper in Jamaica and energy needs are fewer, can Britain address this emergency in an affordable manner that limits damage for the commonwealth while easing the drastic and destabilizing effects of deportation to the deportees and to the island of Jamaica? 

- Can the British Commonwealth, leveraging the lower labor and energy costs, create a resettlement program that uses British strategic funding to leverage more funding?

- Use British Colonial resource--abandoned buildings, etc.--purchasing and refurbishment them to achieves the preservation goals of the island, the reputation of the Commonwealth (presumably), achieving at least two goals at once.

The resettlement Program would also provide:

 

1) Basic needs

- housing

- food and water

- transportation to obviate need to buy cars and clog roads

2) Train a team of program managers

3) Inventory skills that could benefit the Jamaican economy along sustainable lines, including:

- building repair

- new sustainable forms of building

- local food production

- small businesses suited to the Jamaican economy (community tourism, etc.)