Barbados Youth Business Trust and its supported youth business, Caribbean E-Waste Management operated by Ms. Malikca Cummings, and several of its partners, including other youth businesses, CERMES, Barbados Chamber of Commerce, Caribbean Youth Environmental Network and Future Centre Trust will participate in a Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)  training to mark WED.

 WED is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action.  The first WED was June 05^th, 1973, after the United Nations conference on the human environment, which was held June 5-16, 1972.

This year's theme is Many Species, One Planet, One Future.  This year's global host Rwanda, a country of exceptional biodiversity which has taken significant actions on environmental protection, will lead the celebrations with three days of keynote events.

BYBT and its partners join thousands of activities around the globe with the hosting of this POPs training.  Other global activities include beach clean ups, concerts, exhibitions, film festivals, rallies, competitions, tree planting, water conservation and energy conservation workshops.

This is a certification training workshop entitled "Achieving Basic Knowledge and Awareness in Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)".

The training will be held on June 4^th from 9:00am to 4:00pm, on the eve of World Environment Day, in the DIT Computer Lab and will be facilitated by officers of the GEF SGP and UNDP.

BYBT and Caribbean E-Waste Management are currently engaged in a POPs awareness, one year project, funded by the GEF SGP which is implemented by UNDP as a corporate programme of the GEF on behalf of the three GEF Implementing Agencies of the World Bank, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UNDP.  The project is scheduled to end in December 2010.

Released June, 2010.