Published: Thursday | January 15, 2015
A young Jamaican woman studying overseas with her eyes set on combatting hoodlums and fighting criminality at the highest level is urging Government to address ills identified in a survey carried out by the Centre for Leadership and Government at the University of the West Indies that Jamaican youths are coming up at the short end of the stick.
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| Shantelee Brown |
With the survey showing that, if given the opportunity, the majority of Jamaicans between ages 14 and 25 would readily leave the land of their birth to seek opportunities in foreign lands, Shantelee Brown, who says she falls in that category of youths, has described herself as a "refugee from rural Jamaica".
Limited Career Choices
The 25-year-old who repeatedly declares her unequivocal love for her country, is a university student in the United States. She told The Gleaner that limited career choices in universities across the country have forced her from her homeland.
"I am the kind of girl who loves a good challenge, and so, I would also like to create history by becoming Jamaica's first female national security minister," said Brown. "Tell the criminals to be on the lookout because I'm coming to take my country back," she added.
Brown lamented that critical courses in forensic psychology; speech language pathology; biomedical engineering; criminology; foreign service; industrial engineering; information systems; manufacturing engineering; neuroscience; software engineering and respiratory therapy are not available.
"For example, in high school, they don't teach how to cite work using Modern Language Association/American Psychology Association (MLA /APA) format in Jamaica," said Brown.
"It's impossible to compete for employment in a global market with the limited career choices offered to us through our colleges," added Brown, who is studying psychology at City University of New York. more
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