BY EVEROL ANDERSON By Everol Anderson Tuesday, March 17, 2015
JAMAICANS on a whole are not buying into an ambitious plan, which has the rare support of the two major political parties, to transform the island into a modern first-world country in the next 15 years.
But against the odds, the guardians of Vision 2030, the national development programme that is supposed to make Jamaica the place of choice to live, work, raise families and do business, are reporting substantial progress in implementing the major elements of the plan, albeit largely under the radar.
"Since its implementation, 22 per cent of the Vision 2030 Jamaica targets (46 indicators) for the period 2009 to 2012 have already been met; 30 per cent of indicators showed some improvement towards achieving the targets and 39 per cent showed no improvement or worsened over the period," said Peisha Bryan-Lee, social sector specialist at the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) which is mandated to make the vision a reality.
Not unexpectedly, the main areas of under-performance were related to economic indicators which account for half of the total number of indicators in the framework of national indicators and targets established under the plan, Bryan-Lee told the Jamaica Observer in an interview on the status of Vision 2030.
"Economic indicators represent almost two-thirds of the indicators that showed no improvement or worsened up to 2012 compared to the baseline year of 2007. This was primarily due, in the first instance, to the impact of the global economic downturn of 2008-2009, the worst global economic downturn in 80 years, which had a disproportionate impact on Jamaica's small, open and vulnerable economy," she said. more
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