Sweet fruits in the hard guava season...

The man who brought the starapple said to watch out for worms - apparently somebody had cut one and found a worm inside. He said that his brother has also eaten the worm and the fruit.

One of anecdotal fruit myths about the dry season is that things like citrus, pineapple and so tend to be sweeter. There have been mangoes falling from the trees in the yard and while not eating the worms, I have been cutting around the holes left by birds and other creatures which I don't want to think about.

Dry season is not the hard guava season. There is an economic slowdown - money is not moving and has not been moving. As with Guyana, there is going to be a blame game about who is responsible for the downturn and when it started.

The reality is that we are in the here and now. I am no economist so I can't comment on how we move forward to the economic up turn. What is not clear is having recognised that rice , sugar, gold, oil and so on are not going to help us, how do we decide what will be the other options? 

There was talk of a National Economic Forum but, I wonder if meanwhile there should be smaller , more local economic forums which are organically organised.

I am grateful that a man has agreed to offer his office space for a monthly IT based conversation which I think could help to stimulate some ideas using IT as a resource.

There must be other places to think about how to understand the global economics, how to improve literacy, how to develop new products and so on without waiting on the Government or the Opposition to sort themselves out.




 








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