My blogs on Joseph "Joey" Issa Founder Cool Group of Companies

Founder of one of the nation’s largest retail conglomerate Joe Issa, who is a member of “The Ultimate Professional Directory of International Who’s Who”, has said that he supports the teaching of money management across the school system, stating it will make for a more frugal populace. “I am of the view that if we teach money management to kids, it will make them more thrifty later on in life,” says Issa, adding, “It could break the back of the phenomenon of living from pay cheque to pay cheque and make for a less turbulent credit environment, such as what we experienced in the late 1990s when both consumers and financial institutions went belly up.” Issa’s comments come as the present administration moves to introduce an entrepreneurship curriculum in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions to foster innovation among school leavers and generate economic growth. But now Issa, who supported the idea of early entrepreneurship training, is pushing the envelope to incl...

A model student and businessman Joe Issa who, in a May 2016 blog urged support for the idea of teaching entrepreneurship in schools, has hailed the recent announcement that it would be done come September 2017. According to the announcement, all Grade nine students in 168 high schools will study entrepreneurship as part of the school curriculum in the September 2017/18 academic year. In an interview about the new development, Issa said the move will revolutionize the way society views school education, in terms of its ultimate utility value – to help find or create jobs. “I have always believed that entrepreneurship can potentially change how we see education particularly, the traditional view of a means to a job upon leaving school. “Now we know better, we should want more from a school education. We can redirect students’ mentality towards having greater knowledge and imagination, and wanting to change their future for the better, and by extension the Jamaican e...