A Look At Jamaica's Brain Drain....Is it necessary to reduce the quantity of tertiary-level graduates who migrate from Jamaica on an annual basis?

By Dr André Haughton

IN LIGHT of Jamaica's current economic stagnation, many ponder whether the country would have been more developed if most of its youngest and brightest minds did not migrate.

With this in mind, is it necessary to reduce the quantity of tertiary-level graduates who migrate from Jamaica on an annual basis? Today'sBriefing explores the issue.

What is brain drain?

Brain drain is the process by which one country (home country) loses intelligent and technically skilled labour through migration to another country (host country), where the economic, geographic or professional environment is more favourable.

Brain drain basically occurs when people acquire university or college education or specialised skills and relocate to apply these knowledge and skills in a country they weren't born. READ More...