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                                If you don’t know what you have, you can’t use it…not in ways that maximize the asset in your possession. Lately Janine Fletcher Taylor, Manager of the Marketing Services Unit at the Jamaica Business Development Corporation and the Things Jamaican retail chain has been...

The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) is getting to the heart of the value of the stories we tell and how they are infused into the art and craft industries: into the products we offer. They’ve unveiled their fine-art focused ‘Art to Heart’ campaign, designed to acknowledge and promote the worth of Jamaica’s orange economy.

The historical architecture of deliberate colonial hegemony has institutionalized structural dependencies, permanently relegating Caribbean economies to the primary sector of global value chains. Because of how colonialism was set up, Caribbean countries are still trapped at the very bottom of the global trade ladder. They do all the heavy lifting by exporting massive amounts of cheap raw materials. Then, wealthy...