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BERMUDA: Intern scheme serves up restaurant jobs for teens. Thirty Bermudian students are on track for prosperous careers in the hospitality trade thanks to summer jobs with one of the island's biggest restaurant groups. Full article
http://www.bermudasun.org/main.asp?SectionID=72&SubSectionID=205&ArticleID=42635
BERMUDA: Salsa summer camps reach out to youngsters. Children across Bermuda have been introduced to the world of salsa, one step at a time. Full article
http://www.bermudasun.org/main.asp?SectionID=9&SubSectionID=230&ArticleID=42640
BERMUDA: Legalising marijuana would put our youth at peril. Bermuda, we are currently experiencing the after-effects of permitting pervasiveness in our society. For decades we have placed mammon above God, out-voted godliness, and voted in a "have it your way" attitude. We have forgotten God; and now we call on God and others for help to get us out of this mess we are in. Full article
http://www.bermudasun.org/main.asp?SectionID=42&SubSectionID=140&ArticleID=42632
CAYMAN ISLANDS: New Miss Teen Cayman crowned. Jamesette Anglin was crowned the new Miss Teen at Saturday night’s pageant. Full article
http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=10385052
CAYMAN ISLANDS: Students explore careers in the Aviation industry. Students from John Gray and Heritage High Schools were given a detailed insight into key aspects of The Cayman Islands Airports Authority work, recently. The eight pupils were briefed about Air Traffic Services, Meteorological Services, Security and Information Systems for two weeks during the Schools’ Annual Work Experience Programmes. Full article
http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=10385056
CAYMAN ISLANDS: Leadership starts young. During a weekend in October, scores of teenagers will take part in leadership and team building exercises more commonly seen in corporations and business organisations. Full article
http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=10385039
CUBA: Cuban Computing Students Bring Bronze Medals from Bulgaria. In spite of the intimidating room filled with some 300 computers, the two Cuban students who participated in the 21st International Computing Olympiad, held in the European city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, won a bronze medal. Full article
http://www.periodico26.cu/english/education/may2009/students082009.html
DOMINICA: 16-year-old Dominican girl marries for convenience; Anguilla leader frowns. Senior government officials here have expressed concern over what they say have been an increasing number of 'marriages of convenience' and they want the practice ended. Full article
http://www.dominicanewsonline.com/all_news/caribbean/7037.html
DOMINICA: 18-year-old Dominican in St. Thomas arrested for rape. Police arrested Corvel James, 18, of Savan on Wednesday night and charged him with aggravated second-degree rape. Full article
http://www.dominicanewsonline.com/all_news/crime_police/7088.html
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: University students take part in 1st Tourism Short Film Fest. With the sponsorship of five Santo Domingo hotels and four companies, students from four universities participated in the first interuniversity festival of tourism short films, an initiative of the APEC University Tourism Deanship. Full article
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/tourism/2009/8/20/32984/University-students-take-part-in-1st-Tourism-Short-Film-Fest
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Dominican teen at the UN discusses ways to erase poverty. Hundreds of teenagers, Dominican Jose Enrique Pacheco among them, streamed into the United Nations this month for the 6th annual Youth Assembly, whose goal is to erase poverty worldwide, community by community. Full article
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/poverty/2009/8/30/33075/Dominican-teen-at-the-UN-discusses-ways-to-erase-poverty
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Dominican teen at the UN discusses ways to erase poverty. Hundreds of teenagers, Dominican Jose Enrique Pacheco among them, streamed into the United Nations this month for the 6th annual Youth Assembly, whose goal is to erase poverty worldwide, community by community. Full article
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/poverty/2009/8/30/33075/Dominican-teen-at-the-UN-discusses-ways-to-erase-poverty
GUADELOUPE: 190 youth from 42 countries who are studying in Cuba committed to fight for the liberation of 5. 190 youth from 42 countries pledged to Havana to fight relentlessly until the release of 5 Cuban antiterrorist unjustly imprisoned in the United States. Full article
http://www.caribcreole1.com/news/cuba/2,1603,08-24-2009--br-190-youth-from-42-countries-who-are-studying-in-cuba-committed-to-fight-for-the-liberation-of-5-.html
JAMAICA: Schools warned against withholding exam results. The education minister Andrew Holness is warning schools against withholding exam results from students whose auxiliary fees are in arrears. Full article
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=12032
JAMAICA: Letter. Fixing our education system. Full article
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090827/letters/letters6.html
NETHERLAND ANTILLES: HIV education training valuable for health workers. Valuable information that can be used in the fight against HIV/AIDS will be shared with the 22 participants of the HIV [e] education training programme, which kicked off last Saturday in St. Maarten. Full article
http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/m086/hivm086.html
NETHERLAND ANTILLES: Youth Link to host round two of Education Forum. The Youth Link Foundation will be hosting round two of its Education Forum at John Larmonie Centre on Tuesday, August 25, from 6:30 to 8:00pm. Full article
http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/m084/teachm084.html
ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES: Students head for College. Students have been busily preparing to move up the next stage of the education. This follows the attainment of release of the 2009 Caribbean Examinations Council Secondary Certificate Examinations. Full article
http://www.thevincentian.com/dcmain.aspx?p=0&i=2983&skin=62&tID=198
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Good O’Level showing by Tobago students. Secretary of Education/Youth Affairs/Sport in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA), Claudia Groome-Duke has commended the island’s students for their improved showing in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination as well as the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE). Full article
http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,106021.html
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