CUBA: The young artists: Clarity and Commitment. With the challenge of Continuing to encourage a critic art that makes no concessions to the market ideology that universally promotes culture as the object of consumption, and to contribute to preserving a vanguard spirit with its transforming role in the life of the country, the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS), is holding its Expanded National Council, slated for Wednesday and Thursday at the National Leadership School of the Young Communists’ League (UJC) in Havana. Full article
http://www.periodico26.cu/english/culture/july2009/cuba-ahs071609.html

DOMINICA: Educational Enhancement Programme for Dominica. The Ministry of Education has embarked upon an initiative geared at facilitating technical and vocation programmes in Dominica. Full article
http://www.dominicanewsonline.com/all_news/education_youth/6594.html

DOMINICA: Cuffy says “NO” to condoms in schools. Director of the Rights to Life Committee Father Franklyn Cuffy said he will not support claims by the former president of the National Youth Council Kelver Darroux, that introducing condoms in school will guard against the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in Dominica. Full article
http://www.dominicanewsonline.com/all_news/education_youth/6591.html

DOMINICA: Sharp wants comprehensive sexuality education introduced in schools. A top official of the International Planned Parenthood Association (IPPA) does not believe that the distribution of condoms in schools on its own can reduce the incidents of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases on the island. Full article
http://www.dominicanewsonline.com/all_news/education_youth/6600.html

JAMAICA: Turning point - Seventh-day Adventist school works out programme to change wayward students. "I was a troublemaker, I loved to fight and if you can't defend yourself I would pick on you and make others laugh," explained 18-year-old Ricardo Logan, as he recalled his early years at a high school in Kingston. Full article
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090717/news/news7.html

NETHERLAND ANTILLES: Caribbean Health Research Council assists local HIV/AIDS programme. The HIV/AIDS Programme Management Team is currently receiving technical assistance from Dr. Ansari Ameen of the Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC), developing indicators to monitor and evaluate the National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan. Full article
http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/m048/aidsm048.html

NETHERLAND ANTILLES: Gang fight halts fashion show. Two innocent bystanders at a fashion extravaganza were hurt when some young men became embroiled in a fight on Saturday night. Full article

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Students behind the camera. Students from secondary schools throughout the country were rewarded for their hard work, Monday, at the prize distribution of the 2008 MovieTowne Short Film competition, held at MovieTowne, Invaders Bay. Full article
http://newsday.co.tt/features/0,103859.html

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Young dad on trial for murder of stepdaughter, aged 2. A-24-YEAR-OLD man of Couva has gone on trial in the San Fernando Criminal Assize Court for the 2004 murder of his two-and-half-year old step daughter in 2004. Full article
http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,103833.html

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Youth Council renews calls for new election. EXECUTIVE secretary of the Trinidad Youth Council (TYC) has renewed calls for fresh elections for a new executive of the National Youth Council (4YC). Full article
http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,103774.html

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Zero tolerance in national code of conduct in schools. The National Parent Teachers’ Association is expecting zero tolerance in the implementation of the national code of conduct which will be introduced at schools in the new school term. Full article
http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,103665.html

US VIRGIN ISLANDS: V.I. Students Take Part in Natural Resources Workshop. Ten high school students from the Virgin Islands joined 104 from Georgia last month at the 48th annual Natural Resources Conservation Workshop at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, GA. Full article
http://stcroixsource.com/content/community/organizations/2009/07/16/vi-students-take-part-natural-resources-workshop