The Intersection of Gender, Culture and Education: Jamaica: The Next 50 Years!

"Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on even though it temporarily eliminates present symptoms. Pain may disappear; but the patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time.”- Daniel H Kress M.D. Pharmaceutical companies are not into business for the purpose of charity. Prescription drugs are a multi-billion industry. We have all been sick. We have all had to visit the doctor who after diagnosis usually sends us off to the pharmacy with a prescription. In fact some of us have had to make that painful decision to choose which medication to purchase in cases where multiple drugs are prescribed and our financial resources are limited to fill the entire prescription.   The economics of prescription drugs is real and serves as a clear and present danger to maintaining good health. Data provided by QuintilesIMS w

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”- Dalai Lama There seems to be an increase in the number of murder/suicide being perpetuated by males in the society. The inability of   men to live up to the unrealistic expectations and definitions   of   how a man is supposed to be oftentimes lead many men down a road of gender humiliation. We continue to do a disservice to our boys when we subscribe and continue to socialize our males along gendered lines. As a result of this process of gender socialization many males are ill-equipped with the social skill sets necessary for them to handle relational challenges, which undoubtedly we all face. The fear of rejection is real and some persons handle this better than others. Disturbingly, those who are primarily tasked with the socialization of our males choose to perpetuate a system of hypermasculinity, which we mistakenly view as the ideal of manhood and masculinity.   As a society and even in t