The region’s flagship programme, the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), could not be successful without the “full participation” of youth, particularly since young people under 30 represented 63% of the region’s population, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration, CARICOM Secretariat said on Thursday.
Speaking in Antigua and Barbuda at a conference to mark the end of a two-year project designed to familiarise students with opportunities which reside in the CSME, Ambassador LaRocque underscored that the youth within CARICOM had a critical role to play in the success of the regional integration movement, according to a press release from the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen.
The forum titled “Conference of Students Engaging the CSME Through Field Promotion,” closed the curtain on a project which saw 283 students travelling to
