(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Newspaper Editors from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be participating in a workshop on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston, Jamaica from 22-23 October 2009.

The workshop is organized by the CARICOM Secretariat with funding provided by the 9th European Development Fund (EDF) and  Caribbean Integration Support Programme (CISP).

Topics to be presented and discussed during the two-day workshop include Establishing a Business in the CSME, The Benefits of Competition Policy and Journalists’ Professional Development in the CSME.

Resource personnel for the workshop are drawn from the private and public sector, the University of the West Indies and the CARICOM Secretariat.

This activity is a continuation of the CARICOM Secretariat’s public education programme on the CSME. Earlier this month, more than twenty Broadcasters took part in a Broadcasters CMSE workshop which was held in Saint Lucia.