General

Women in Jamaica

March 10, 2012
 

International Women’s Day was celebrated on March 8. Many will argue that every day is women’s day, especially in a country like Jamaica where women make up at least 70 per cent of university graduates and occupy many middle and top level jobs. Some, like The Independent, a UK newspaper, will even argue that a country like Jamaica is in one respect the ‘best place for women’ since, according to them; women occupy a very large percentage of ‘high-skilled jobs’ – 60%. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let us pause for a reality check.

Jamaica 'Best Place for Women Who Want High-Skilled Jobs'

The 51% Coalition – Development & Empowerment Through Equity

Saturday, November 19, 2011
Written By: 
Marcia Forbes
Abstract: 

‘The 51% Coalition – Development and Empowerment through Equity’, a campaign to increase the participation of women in politics and on boards through a 60/40 quota system, was launched on Tuesday, November 22nd. The organizers were interviewed on several radio programmes in Jamaica the day before the launch and on the actual launch day. Listeners wanted to know what it was all about. Why 51%? Did it mean women now wanted more than a half of everything. At the launch the room was full, mostly women but a few vocal men. The men were concerned, as too were some women. Why quotas? Why not just wait for things to happen naturally?

Beyond Buttons: Social Media & Governance

October 3, 2011

How 'Music, Media & Adolescent Sexuality in Jamaica' made the List for CAPE, Sociology

Written by Marcia A. Forbes, Ph.D.
July 9, 2011

The Journey
The journey started long before July, 2011 and it did get me into trouble and a falling out with the University Press, partly it seems for insisting on CAPE students as a key market.  But, as mi Grandmother used to say, “if yuh waan good yuh nose haffi run!”  Music, Media & Adolescent Sexuality in Jamaica is a case study in dogged determination!! She also taught me that “is not everything good fe eat good fe talk” so I have nothing more to say about the UWI Press and this book.

Jamaican Diaspora, Social Media & Strengthening Ties that Bind

Excerpts from Keynote Address to the August 2011 Jamaica Independence Ball hosted in Atlanta by the Atlanta Jamaica Association & the Union of Jamaican Associations.

Fully aware of the power of the Diaspora and the power of new media, I frame my presentation within the context of Jamaican Diaspora, Social Media & Strengthening the Ties that Bind. 

Demands on Diaspora

Caribbean Studies Association on the Late Professors Chevannes & Nettleford and Book Review by Prof. LeoRhynie

Fortuitous

It is entirely fortuitous that Professor Elsa LeoRhynie's review of my book, Music, Media & Adolescent Sexuality in Jamaica, has been published in the same Caribbean Studies Newsletter as Professor Peter Figueroa's Eulogy to Professor Barry Chevannes.   Barry wrote the foreword to my book and died only days after its launch in Jamaica.  Having been critically ill in hospital, due respect was paid to him at that event. 

The Psychology of Marketing – Do you know why you buy?

Background 

This presentation was made at the one day marketing seminar hosted by final year marketing students from the University of Technology at the Jamaica Conference Centre.  Hundreds of students, staff and supporters attended.  I was quite impressed with the quality of the discussions which followed each presentation.  Other speakers included former Minister of Energy and Telecommunications, Member of Parliament Phillip Paulwell, Mr. Wayne Chen, Businessman and Chairman of the Jamaica Employers' Federation and the Urban Development Corp and Professor Ross, Department of Marketing, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

PRESENTATION

The Old Men & Old Ways

Whither ICT for Jamaica?

Congratulations to all the Graduates. Today marks the official closure of the ICT Training programme so generously facilitated by the Government of India, and which included several partners for its successful execution. The Government of Jamaica, HEART Trust NTA and its subsidiary agencies and the Excelsior Community College have all been critical to the success of this ICT Training Centre, a Centre of Excellence.

A Spotty Track Record in ICT

Black History Month Sensitization

Address to Students at Spanish Town High School, Jamaica
February 14, 2011

Why Black History Month
The idea of Black History Month came about as one way of remembering the journeys of African peoples away from their continent to other lands far away. In remembering this, we honour their struggles and successes. Since 1976, now 35 years ago, Black History Month has been celebrated in the United States of America (USA), Canada and the United Kingdom (UK). The UK is also called Great Britain and is made up of England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland. So, we see that Black History Month is celebrated in many other places apart from Jamaica. In the USA they mainly call it African-American History Month.

Riding a Camel Across the Great Sahara!!

Memories of Egypt -- Riding a Camel & Much More!!

I told him I had to ride a camel.  I didn’t bargain for a horse as well—and for one full hour in the sands of the Sahara!  An Egyptian man is hard pressed to take ‘No’ for an answer. 

Marcia Forbes - Biography

Overview

Dr. Marcia Forbes is a communications specialist and media veteran.  She is well known in Jamaica for successfully transforming the 40 year old Government owned Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) into the privately owned Television Jamaica (TVJ), the industry leader in free-to-air television broadcasting in that island. After several years at the helm of TVJ she left to pursue her PhD.

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