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You ever eat food and talk about the recession? Pick seasoning in your front yard and reason about the economy? Next thing, Jean-Claude tell me this: “Linked to the idea of youth is that someone is there to look after you. I think the nation is entering a general phase of adulthood where children are […]
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“How many rivers do we have to cross before we can talk to the boss? All that we’ve got, seems we have lost we must have really paid the cost.” – Bob Marley, Burnin and Lootin If you think the shooting of Denelson Smith and Mark Richard does not affect you because your particular class […]
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The failure of state-run secondary schools exacerbates classism as a result of mismanagement and social neglect by persistent administrations that have had a piece-meal approach to the crises yutes face in the education system. For 2015, in the allocation pool of 443 national scholarships, denominational schools took home a whopping 95% of the total number […]
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Over the course of three-days, yutes and youth development professionals from the Caribbean, including representatives from Barbados to Haiti/Ayiti and Cuba, and scholars from Mexico, UK, Canada and Germany, united to bring attention to the state of youth at the SALISES Caribbean Youth Development Conference. I was blessed with the opportunity to deliver the address […]
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