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  • Photo of CARICOM youth benefit from training in entrepreneurship

    CARICOM youth benefit from training in entrepreneurship

    Several CARICOM out-of-school youth will benefit from training in entrepreneurship to increase their ability to earn. The exercise is part of the CARICOM/Spain Project: Support for Reducing Youth on Youth Violence in Schools and Communities in CARICOM Member States. It will use the Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) model to build the capacity of out-of-school youth from the Babanneau community in Saint Lucia, the Cayon community…

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  • Photo of Saint Lucian Tertiary Students Head to Suriname

    Saint Lucian Tertiary Students Head to Suriname

    The CARICOM Secretariat is winding down the project ‘Students Engaging the CSME through Field Promotion’ with the first of the final three missions for 2016 getting underway this Monday, March 14. Nineteen Saint Lucian tertiary students from the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC) and one CARICOM Youth Ambassador (CYA) are traveling to Suriname for the week-long mission. They are…

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  • Photo of CARICOM launches PSAs on youth crime and violence

    CARICOM launches PSAs on youth crime and violence

    On Monday 29 February 2016, the CARICOM Secretariat launched at the Regional Forum on Youth Crime and Violence in Georgetown, Guyana, three one-minute animated public service announcements on the topics of bullying, love and belonging, and the Ideal Caribbean Youth. One of the areas that needs to be addressed in CARICOM’s Social Development and Crime Prevention Action Plan is that…

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  • Photo of Twenty-Ninth COHSOD concludes with focus on Animation for Development

    Twenty-Ninth COHSOD concludes with focus on Animation for Development

    The Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) came to a close on Friday. Minister for Youth Development and Sports Saint Lucia Hon. Shawn Edward chaired the two-day proceedings where Ministers and officials with responsibility for youth development came together to discuss and make decisions in relation to the youth and culture. The final item on…

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  • Photo of Optimize youth participation, Regional meeting urged

    Optimize youth participation, Regional meeting urged

    CARICOM Youth Ambassador (CYA) from Belize and Vice Dean of the CYAs Tarun Butcher has challenged delegates of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) to do everything in their power to get the optimum participation of young people in the activities of the Caribbean Community. Ms. Butcher was speaking at the opening of the Twenty Ninth Meeting of…

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  • Photo of Remarks by Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque    At The   Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD)  (Youth and Culture)  3-¬4 March 2016  GEORGETOWN, Guyana

    Remarks by Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque   At The   Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD)  (Youth and Culture)  3-¬4 March 2016 GEORGETOWN, Guyana

    It is my pleasure to warmly welcome you to the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) on Youth and Culture.  I welcome, especially, those of you who are visiting our Community Headquarters for the first time.   To the Hon. Evans Rogers, Minister of Health and Social Development with responsibility for Youth and Culture of…

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  • Photo of ‘Don’t disappoint Region’s youth’ – Assistant Secretary-General Slater

    ‘Don’t disappoint Region’s youth’ – Assistant Secretary-General Slater

    Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development at the CARICOM Secretariat, Dr. Douglas Slater, has implored Directors of Youth across the Region not to disappoint the youth. He was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Eighth Meeting of the Directors of Youth Affairs hosted at the CARICOM Secretariat on Wednesday. Dr. Slater made reference to a recently concluded youth forum where…

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  • Photo of Deputy PM Richards Weighs In On CARICOM Youth Development Agenda

    Deputy PM Richards Weighs In On CARICOM Youth Development Agenda

    Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 02, 2016 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis Deputy Prime Minister, Honourable Shawn Richards, and CARICOM Youth Ambassador (CYA) Dennis McCall Jr. are in Guyana for a series of meetings that will help to shape the youth development agenda back home and across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).   The first meeting ran from February 29 to March…

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  • Photo of Regional youth forum stresses need for restorative justice

    Regional youth forum stresses need for restorative justice

    The connection of crime and violence to drugs, legal and illegal; the need for “restorative justice” and understanding the dynamics at the community level to ensure targeted interventions, formed part of the discussions at the Regional Forum on Youth Crime and Violence now underway in Georgetown, Guyana. The discussions were held during the Session on Youth Gangs and Violence which…

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  • Photo of Craft a culture that makes youth assets – Minister Ramjattan tells Regional Youth Forum

    Craft a culture that makes youth assets – Minister Ramjattan tells Regional Youth Forum

    Guyana’s Minister for Public Security, Hon. Khemraj Ramjattan, called for the crafting of   a culture that makes youth assets rather than liabilities. The Minister made this call at the Official Opening of  the two-day Regional Forum on Youth Crime and Violence which opened today, 29 February 2016, in Georgetown, Guyana, under the theme: Youth Crime and Violence; Breaking the Cycle…

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