UNITED States President Barack Obama yesterday announced a US$68-million education/training programme just before ending a successful working visit to Jamaica that he admitted was short but suggested that he would love to return with his wife and daughters for a longer stay.
US President Barack Obama interacts with youth in Jamaica on Thursday 9 April, 2015
In less than 24 hours in the Jamaican capital, Kingston, Obama also held bilateral discussions with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, hosted a summit with Caribbean Community leaders, laid a wreath at the Cenotaph at National Heroes Park in honour of Jamaicans who died in both World Wars, and got a taste of Jamaican culture when he visited the Bob Marley Museum shortly after his arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston Wednesday night.
The American president, who kept a tight schedule in Jamaica ahead of the Seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama today and tomorrow, announced the education and training programme at a town hall meeting of regional youth leaders at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus.
