Healthcare SYNERGIES

Science and Technology are advancing Human Health. From birth to death, conception to demise, data records and modern technology, are providing essential intelligence to better every condition of life. With growing knowledge of DNA, RNA and Protein forming genes (the base of all life), scientists have and continues to improve wellness and healthcare.

Advancing Nutrition through better Agriculture and improving Basic Life Support and Primary Healthcare requires #SYNERGIES. Nutrition, the study of nutrients and its effects on health is well developed and constantly evolving to impact human, animal and plant life.

 Agriculture, the cultivation of spaces and breeding of animals and plants, is also well developed and continuously expanding to provide better nutrients. Lifesaving actions, first aid and basic life support, are essential in cases of trauma and maintaining healthy lives involves, routine and preventative, Medical checkups, which are to explore for the first signs of illness.

Personal Financials

Meet Joshua, a single dad with a ten-year-old son, helping to get his son out of bed and prepared for school while, getting himself ready for work as a welder. Joshua clearly understands his commitments and responsibilities, to keep himself and his son healthy, with a safe and secure roof over their heads and with transport options to benefit their lives. Joshua, clearly need some advice as to the hidden cost, which can and would have a devastating effect on his personal financial plan, also known as statement of affairs, and ultimately, eating into his income and reducing his ability to grow his savings and pension.

Economic Drivers 2018

(An extract from Foreign Direct Investment 2018)

Operating on 5.90% of the nation’s total expenditure, as reported by the office of the Auditor General 2016 and 4.39% in the 2017 revised estimates, while estimating 3.84% for 2018 down by 13.44%, as published by the Ministry of Finance. Economic Drivers are administered by the Ministries of Energy and Energy Industries, Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries, Planning and Development, Foreign and CARICOM Affairs, Labour and Small Enterprise Development, Trade and Industries, and Tourism. The nation's revenue, to offset its total annual expenditure, comes from the collections of taxes, duties and royalties; taxes on (personal income) salaries and wages, on (consumption) sales and value added, on (operations) business levy and green fund, on (corporation) profits, etc. Such revenue generating activities are encouraged and facilitated via Economic Drivers, which designs, implements and reviews the conditions for investment, employment and, the resulting, taxation.

Infrastructure Management 2018

(An extract from Foreign Direct Investment 2018)

Utilizing 20.38% of the nation’s total expenditure, as reported by the office of the Auditor General 2016 and 20.39% in the 2017 revised estimates, while estimating 20.60% for 2018 down by 0.17%, as published by the Ministry of Finance, to maintain and expand public spaces. Such Infrastructure expenditure has widely been realized and accepted to directly impact productivity; outputs, driven by comfortable and safe, work and play environments, for example; organizations to produce and deliver water and electricity, industrial parks, courts, police stations, hospital, schools, housing, administration offices, communications, community centers, open parks, transport hubs, roads and bridges, etc. This Infrastructure Management category consist of the Ministries of Public Utilities, Works and Transport, Rural Development and Local Government, Housing and Urban Development and the Tobago House of Assembly.

Human Development 2018

(An extract from Foreign Direct Investment 2018)

This comprised expenditure funds totaling 29.64% of the nation’s total expenditure, as reported by the office of the Auditor General 2016 and 28.49% in the 2017 revised estimates, while estimating 29.44% up by 2.14% for 2018, as published by the Ministry of Finance. The Human Development category is to execute policies, strategies and initiatives of the Ministries of Health, Education, Social Development and Family Services, Community Development, Culture and the Arts, and Sport and Youth Affairs.

The Will to Live

The call is for a better world, new integrated systems, which eliminates Ego and Greed, moves the artisan, dreamer, planner, thinker or visionary, to the top of the social ladder, while downplaying personal wants and replacing them with public needs. Placing efforts to serve the many before benefiting the few. The average citizen, worker, union member, self-employed, politically active, in other words every individual, must understand, the existing reality, before committing to or taking a position in foreseeable disputes, insurrection or war.

Economic Drivers 2017

(An extract from Foreign Direct Investment 2017)

The nation's revenue, to offset its total annual expenditure, comes from the collections of taxes, duties and royalties; taxes on (personal income) salaries and wages, on (consumption) sales and value added, on (operations) business levy and green fund, on (corporation) profits, etc. Such revenue generating activities are encouraged and facilitated via Economic Drivers, which designs, implement and review the conditions for investment, employment and, the resulting, taxation. Operating on 5.48% of the nation's total current expenditure budget, Economic Drivers are administered by the Ministries of Energy and Energy Industries, Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries, Planning and Development, Foreign and CARICOM Affairs, Labour and Small Enterprise Development, Trade and Industries, and Tourism.

Human Development 2017

(An extract from Foreign Direct Investment 2017)

The progress of any country, nation, society is driven by its human resource and the development of such; its citizenry, its people, its skills and talents. Noting that, growth industries and job creation are as a direct result of investment in ideas, and the only true source of ideas is the human being. A population that is educated, healthy, well adjusted as a society, contributing in the community, supporting culture and the arts, participating in competitive sport and encouraging the youth, will build and maintain a happy, respectful, caring and sharing nation.

The Human Development category consist of budgetary allocations, 28.90% of the nation's total annual estimated expenditure down by 0.31% from the previous period revised estimates, to execute policies, strategies and initiatives of the Ministries of Health, Education, Social Development and Family Services, Community Development, Culture and the Arts, and Sport and Youth Affairs.

The Good, the Bad and the Evil

We, the people, normally refer to as the good, law-abiding in society, demand protection, through all branches of Government, from people who intend us harm. Through the elected and selected lawmakers in parliament, who write and strengthen the laws. Using judicial members, who interpret and pass judgment based on existing laws. And via the executive branch or cabinet, who budget, fund and implement all security needs. It therefore, stands to reason that we, the people must also be the bad, law-breaking people, the very same people who structure and exploit weak laws, the persons who support the concept of 'justice for the rich - jail for the poor', and those among us who think tax avoidance is legal and tax evasion is illegal.

Common Enemy

The human condition strives on disputes, competition, conflicts and arguments even where none exist. Disputes over the control of resources, Competition as a problem solver rather than collaboration, Conflict embroiling owners vs. workers, Arguments about the best use of profits. This is all based on egos, selfishness and greed, mostly executed by men supported by mothers, wives and daughters, who enjoy the benefits but refuse to ask any pertinent questions until negatively impacted. Clearly a common enemy is needed to solve all problems, bringing all creeds, races, religions, rich, poor, owners and workers, together, to promote peace and stop the human on human abuse. Many fictional works have already depicted such scenarios; alien invasion, comet collision, overheating of the earth's core, rise of the machines, disease, famine, water woes, begging the question, does reality truly have to follow art?

Less Tax More Jobs

Investment Opportunities only exist if it can produce returns on investment (ROI), after paying its legitimate obligations. It must offer Capital Gains – growing the investment value and Dividends Payouts – paying for the use of the investment funds, generating a competitive yield. Such Investment Opportunities create employment; salaries and wages along with its associated taxation, delivering on individual management contracts and collective worker union agreements, similarly spawn other opportunities and donate to the society. These Investment Opportunities call on individuals and corporations, who, after many years of work, have retained excess savings or wealth, to participate in building operations, promising safer and greater ROI.

Nation Building

First World Nation status is ultimately measured by the level of financial sophistication of the nation’s population, as it pertains to national, corporate and individual – expenditure, revenue and (debt/equity) reserves. Money, similar to a bathroom scale or a kitchen thermometer, is only a measuring tool used to value tangible and intangible items and all must learn to use it. Investing in productive and administrative activities, to generate sales revenue and returns on investment, in order to repeat and grow other opportunities.

Economic Drivers (An extract from Foreign Direct Investment)

With energy and commodities international prices drastically declining and forecasted to fall even further, extractive industries especially petroleum exporting nations, must focus on other sectors and industries to generate its foreign earnings. A Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries, responsible for monitoring, controlling and regulating the energy and mineral sectors, developed over the last century, cannot easily be replaced as the main earner, but the effort to do so must start NOW! Not just by investment in renewables but through a mixed of economic drivers.

Human Development (An extract from Foreign Direct Investment)

Good health, sound education, social empowerment, physical activities and community interaction are the essentials for Human Development.

Charged with oversight of the entire health system, the Ministry of Health plays a central role in the protection of the population’s health and in ensuring that all organizations and institutions that produce health goods and services conform to standards of safety. This ministry provides effective leadership for the health sector by focusing on evidence-based policy making; planning; monitoring; evaluation; collaboration and regulation. The ministry establishes national priorities for health and ensures an enabling environment for the delivery of a broad range of high quality, people-centred services from a mix of public and private providers. Healthcare involves nutrition, directs wellness through physical activities, controls drugs through dispensary, manages rehabilitation for addicts and delivers emergency programs through regional clinics and hospitals along with special treatment centers, and is responsible for building new, for expanding and maintaining facilities, and recruitment and training personnel, as stated in the national budget.

Eco Cities

This is not an attempt to fix all of humanities problems but a call to prioritize and direct resources to the best solutions. In a multiple action approach, Governments (we the people) must address; the elimination of depress areas, the improvement and preservation of a healthy educated population, the reduction of poverty and the creation of new employment opportunities. Hiding from long-term problems, which require sustained actions over numerous political terms, will not solve them. The best solutions are, approaches required side by side to the existing, to invest in new industries and sectors, surrounded by new and refurbished commercial and residential areas, participate in finding new and renewable energy sources, while addressing the effects of climate change, and using the new technology to increase food yields, purify water and reduce air pollution.

Necessity, the mother of Action

Another reaction, by energy policy-makers of the Caribbean region, to the very predictable crisis of increasing energy (oil and gas) prices, at the end of a one-day Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) held in Guyana on March 24, 2011. A media release acknowledged that the energy situation remained dire, for the net oil importing Members of the Community, given the recent surge in oil prices intensified by the ongoing political turmoil in the Northern African and Middle Eastern Region. “Having identified gaps and areas for strengthening, including those related to renewable energy and climate change issues, the Ministers mandated that the finalization of the CARICOM Energy Policy be expedited.

Minimum Wage

Educating the public, from a very young age, as to what is involved in a decent and acceptable standard of living, along with their collective and individual responsibilities to maintain, grow and develop their society. No one should be left behind; education must reach all, with meals and healthcare provided, and other social services to reach the most vulnerable. No one should be too far in front; taxing the richest ten percent of the population, will reduce immoral activities, and help finance social programs.

A standard of living that is firstly, made possible by marketable production, not just productivity for the sake of reducing unemployment statistics, generating revenue from the sale of goods and services that are financially viable to produce and is clearly in demand. A standard of living that is secondly, evenly divided geographically, across all preferred economic sectors and, more importantly, seen to be fairly distributed amount all in the society, building a majority of middle class citizens.

Parenting

The very survival of society must focus on problem solving rather than social differences. With common challenges such as, climate change and its rippling effects, deadly and highly infectious diseases and other doomsday projections looming, individual distinctions can only distract from the mission. Well thought out and practical solutions can only come from fully engaged and informed minds.

Teaching children respect, not just for each other but for themselves, allows for another creative member of society, that when trained in the systems under which society functions, becomes more focus on communal solutions as opposed to self gratification. Education cannot take place in a vacuum, learning is universal. So when a child ask about the purpose of a particular lessen, each and every member of society must be able to answer, it is about the collective quality of life.

Re-Sectioning

Many international economists are presently speaking of a double dip recession, as some G20 countries turn inward, reducing imports, and essentially closing traditional export markets to each others’ products. These austerity measures aimed at reducing public sector waste and boosting efficiency has also resulted in cuts in some social programs. Noting that when I first coined the word “re-section”, it was in response to an insignificant debate on the definition of a recession and how the private sector uses the resulting media frenzy to reduce staff, tighten budgets and refocus its operations.

Rewarding Risk

In the present global economic situation, where vast amounts of monies are chasing very few viable opportunities, country’s traditional export and tourism revenues are drastically down and declining, driving Governments to seek to diversify and find new niche markets. Some experts are promoting think tanks, business incubators and entrepreneurship as a solution to increase foreign revenues and create jobs.

In every aspect of society, risk taking has been rewarded as a natural course of events. Soldiers and other security personnel being awarded medals and promotions, sport and culture personality winning endorsement contracts and others, who perform above the call of duty, are given bonuses in some form or another. These rewards are primarily used to motivate others, hence the lavish presentation ceremonies, to be creative, innovative and analytical.