The 2024 National Youth Awardees pose with Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment, Charles Griffith (second from left); Director of the Divisio .
Minister of Labour, Colin Jordan; United Nations Resident Coordinator in Barbados, Didier Trebucq; Canada's High Commissioner to Barbados, Lilian Chatt .
Bailey the YOUNGA 2021 Barbados representative barbadostoday.bb - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from barbadostoday.bb Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
as a small island developing nation to these natural disasters. maria, do you want to respond to what you have heard ashley and the minister say? i would like to say that, l thank you for the answer, and i could have learnedj a thing or two from that. so impressive, 12 years old, and an ardent climate activist. applause. thank you, maria, thank you. let s go to our second question now, and it s from ranako bailey. where is the balance - between boosting economic activity, for example - the expansion of the tourism industry, and environmental impacts of pollution, - deforestation and the - disruption of ecosystems? minister kirk humphrey, you have to get the balance right you want economic growth for the people here, you have got unemployment level of about i7%, youth unemployment is even higher at 32%, you want to give people a decent living, but you don t want to do it at the expense of the environment? yeah. so, again, thank you
as a small island developing nation to these natural disasters. maria, do you want to respond to what you have heard ashley and the minister say? i would like to say that, l thank you for the answer, and i could have learnedj a thing or two from that. laughs. so impressive, 12 years old, and an ardent climate activist. applause. thank you maria, thank you. let s go to our second question now, and it s from ranako bailey. where is the balance - between boosting economic activity, for example - the expansion of the tourism industry, and environmental impacts of pollution, - deforestation and the - disruption of ecosystems? minister kirk humphrey, you have to get the balance right you want economic growth for the people here, you have got unemployment level of about i7%, youth unemployment is even higher at 32%, you want to give people a decent living, but you don t want to do it at