Tertiary-level education students were exposed to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in the second phase of a CARICOM project which got started on Monday with a pre-mission briefing in St. Lucia.
Similar sessions for the second phase of the students project will be held in eight other CARICOM member states, the CARICOM Secretariat said in a news release yesterday.
Students from the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College who will be travelling to Guyana as part of the project were updated on the upcoming field mission, the release stated.
The project, which is funded by the European Union, under the 9th EDF Caribbean Integration Support Programme (CISP) will see 225 students from nine CARICOM member states participating during this second phase.
Representatives of the CARICOM Secretariat, the European Union, the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College and the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs spoke to the students in Saint Lucia.
This project, which commenced last year, entails training youths to identify and develop responses to CSME opportunities.
In 2008, 60 students from Belize, Dominica and Suriname visited Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados respectively.
The objective of the project, the release added, is to engage the next generation in identifying career possibilities with regard to wage employment, self-employment and starting a business in the CSME.
The field missions for the second phase of the ‘Students Engaging the CSME through Field Promotions Project’ will commence on August 30 and conclude on October 3, this year.
And at the end of the project, tertiary students from all twelve CARICOM member states that are at present participating in the CSME would be exposed to the CSME.
