BARBADOS+ Entrepreneurship alive and well in Barbados among the youth Two innovative, community-minded and business-oriented Barbadian students, participating in the BEF $20 Challenge Schools Entrepreneurial Competition, have embarked on an interesting approach to entrepreneurship.
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS+ Facebook, other social networks bolstered NDP’s youth agenda – Smith Premier Dr. D. Orlando Smith has partly credited his party’s success at the polls to the friendships he created with young people on social networks, especially Facebook, while pointing out that a “dynamic youth agenda” was the focus of his election campaign and will remain central to his new government.
+ NDP used the global recession against us, young people bought it – Irene Penn-O’Neal Virgin Islands Party (VIP) territorial at-large candidate in the recent general elections, Irene Penn-O’Neal, believes her party lost the elections mainly because the National Democratic Party (NDP) used the global recession affecting the BVI against the VIP government.
+ “Cultural identity must form part of the educational curriculum” – education minister Education Minister Myron V. Walwyn has called on all BVIslanders to assist government in actively passing on the heritage and history of the Virgin Islands to the youth, while announcing plans to ensure culture and history is incorporated in the education system at all levels.
+ Elvis Harrigan calls youth votes bittersweet; surprised at loss Arguably, the Nov. 7, 2011 general elections saw the largest turnout of youth voters, but while many politicians have expressed delight in with what they collectively describe as a sign of strong democracy, others like Elvis Harrigan felt the phenomenon was bittersweet.
CAYMAN ISLANDS+ YCLA nominations due Tuesday The time to nominate young people for the Young Cayman Leadership Award is drawing near.
DOMINICA+ Dominican students honored at Monroe College Gala celebrations of student achievement have become time-honored traditions at Monroe College and this semester’s President’s and Dean’s (P and D) List events on the Bronx and New Rochelle Campuses once again illustrate on the college’s core values: commitment to accomplishment.
+ Dominica Youth Environment Organisation Inc to host Think Tank Forum The Dominica Youth Environment Organisation Inc., the Pinelands Creative Workshop in partnership with UN Women will be hosting a Think Tank Forum in Dominica entitled “Building Blocks for Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Caribbean” on 17th November 2011 from 8:30am to 4:30pm at the Garraway Hotel to examine how vulnerable female heads of households in Barbados and the OECS can mitigate the present economic conditions through taking advantage of the emerging economic sectors.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC+ Dominican students “learn the least in the region” The country’s learning and investment in education were very deficient, according to the Dominican Republic Educative Progress Report 2010, disclosed yesterday.
JAMAICA+ Students Who Use Facebook In Study Time Underperforming Students who use Facebook during periods of study are not performing as well as those who do not use the social media, Lisa Caleb, a lecturer at Mico University College, has said.
+ Trench Town fugitive student turns self in THE 17-year-old student who went on the run Tuesday after a gun was found on the grounds of the Trench Town High School, has turn himself over to the police.
+ ANANDA ALERT! 3 teen girls missing AN Ananda Alert has been activated for 14-year-old Yeshika Campbell of a Trelawny address, who has been reported missing since Monday, October 7, 2011.
+ Western Ja students to benefit from triathlon workshop FOR the second year, student/athletes from western Jamaica will benefit from a workshop held in collaboration with the Jamaica Triathlon that will be staged at the Iberostar hotel this weekend, November 11-13th.
NETHERLAND ANTILLES+ Boasman says: high youth unemployment a ‘concern’ A 'cause for concern' was the term used by Labour Affairs Agency Head Rafael Boasman to describe the 29.4 per cent (2009 CBS stats) youth unemployment rate in St. Maarten.
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO+ Girls too young to marry The Indian Women’s Group of Trinidad and Tobago yesterday supported Government’s move to make the legal age of marriage 18 years, as under this age, girls are not psychologically mature for marriage.
+ Young Leaders rise to climate change challenge Marked by the dynamism and quality of presentations consistent with the great debate final, the second round of the 2011/2012 RBC Royal Bank Young Leaders Debates continued until Tuesday October 25, at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain.
+ $300M FOR YOUTH JOBS PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday announced that Government will launch a massive job creation programme to create 20,000 jobs in specific “hot spot” areas and low income communities in order to curb crime as it plans for the post-state of emergency period in the country.
US VIRGIN ISLANDS+ Young Rappers Rule at Reef Fest Reef Fest's fierce rap battle at Brewers Bay ended Sunday with DJ Aqua Tune, a seventh-grade student who lives on St. Thomas, crowned number one
