Question: According to the Film Life and Debt, who is to be blamed for Jamaica's slow development and dependency Jamaica Government IMF and World Bank Colonialism and Europe OPEC NAFTA, WTO and USA Answer: Participate via our Spotify community page or YouTube Community Channel Page. This Lecture continues the discussion from last class exploring the paradox of sovereignty. Today we review the film "Life and Debt" by Stephanie Black about Jamaica's challenge since post-independence to develop economically as a result of the external or foreign forces using debt, structural adjustment under globalization. Globalization has not positively affected the Caribbean given what W.W. Rostow theorize about the stages of development. We begin with a reading of the text book: Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance, chapter 10 on Cinema and Globalization. The chapter begins with a critique of the film which we discuss briefly before we begin the film. The film is available in full via Amazon Prime for purchase. The podcast is done in audio, but is available in video via YouTube and Spotify. The Lecture is part of a course at Jamaica Theological Seminary in Jamaica via the Zoom platform, and a Lecture series by The Neoliberal Corporation. Visit us at https://theneoliberal.com Subscribe on any stream. Find your stream at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal. Support us at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal. The Lecture is delivered by Renaldo McKenzie, Author of Neoliberalism, available via Amazon, Barnes and Noble, The Neoliberal Store at https://store.theneoliberal.com etc. Note: The film Life and Debt provides a historical understanding of the challenge of adjustment in Jamaica and The Caribbean. Life and Debt is based on a book by Jamaica Kincaid, "A Small Place". --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support