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4 5 JUNE/JULY 2018 Opening Lines AGRICULTURE BOOT CAMP FOR FUTURE LEADERS HELD IN GRENADA T hirty young people from Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique par- ticipated, recently, in a three-day boot camp, facilitated by a team from the University of the West Indies’ Centre for Food Security and Entrepreneurship, and designed to position them to be pioneers in climate-smart agriculture. The youth participants, who were between the ages of 18 and 35 years old, are the newest cohort in the Caribbean Development Bank’s Vybzing Youth Outreach Program, which is being held under the theme, “Climate Action Today = Food for Tomorrow.” The program, part of the agenda for the annual meeting of the bank’s board of governors, aims to inspire participants to take action to build a better Caribbean. “We need to adopt climate-smart agriculture practices and technologies. This is globally regarded as being essential to efforts aimed at supporting vulnerable communities and youth in mitigating and adapting to climate change,” said Yvette Lemonias Seale, Vice-President of Corporate Services and Bank Secretary’s Unit, Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), while ad- dressing attendees at the opening ceremony. “I am extremely pleased with this Vybzing Grenada Bootcamp. It is timely, relevant, commercially useful, extremely practical and most of all – ex- citing,” she added. Kate Lewis, Minister within the Ministry of Youth Development, Sports, Culture and the Arts, Grenada, also delivered remarks at the event. “I

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