NINETEEN students of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies have been chosen to represent the island in Jamaica on the Students Engaging the CSME Through Field Promotion project.
The aim of this project is to identify and develop responses to opportunities in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
Speaking recently to the group in the CSME Unit in Haggatt Hall, St Michael, Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM Robert “Bobby” Morris pointed out that along with their mission, opportunities may arise for them to foster relationships and work in other Caribbean territories.
“The freedom of movement regime is strongly mooted as an important catalyst for the development of the regional economy for lifting individual economies from their current state of stagnation, and for offering the youth of our countries work opportunities, either as an employee or as entrepreneurs in situations where youth employment, even for the educated, is not often available,” he said.
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