Thank you, St Lucia!

CASTRIES, July 7 - More than 40 participants from St Lucia's labour market, from professional organisations, artists groups, artisans, media workers, trade unions to civil servants, came together at the Bay Gardens Hotel in Rodney Bay on June 30 for a national consultation on the CSME.  

OPINION: Where's the beef in your CSME beef?

By Julius Gittens

(Full disclosure: I am holder of a CSME Skilled National Certificate since 2007)
 LEFT: Seen at right receiving my certificate, the first in Barbados, from a Ministry of Education official.



Does this sound familiar?

"CSME is a waste of time. The structure of the institutions in CARICOM is beyond worst. For example, if a ministry has to type a letter you have to wait three weeks.