The Caricom Secretariat has embarked on a series of Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) entrepreneurship training for young people across Caribbean, in targeted member states that have some of the highest unemployment rates among youth.
According to a press release from the Caricom Secretariat, it sees this entrepreneurship training as a short to medium term solution spin-off solution to motivate young people to create their own employment and arguably employment for their peers particularly in the creative and technology industries. A long-term solution to this perennial problem is to re-engineer the education system, including the infrastructure, so that education not only becomes more accessible to all youth but is also more relevant in addressing the diverse needs and supports the varied aspirations and dreams of its students. The CEBO training is seen as an immediate solution while it formulates the appropriate regional policies to redesign the education system.
“Youth unemployment is a global problem. The International Labour Organization says 70 million young people are actively – but unsuccessfully – looking for employment. They represent nearly
