UCCI students take part in CPA Youth Parliament

| 16/07/2019
Cayman News Service
Reon Porter and Leah Robinson

(CNS Local Life): University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) students Reon Porter and Leah Robinson are representing Cayman at the 15th Regional Youth Parliament set for Wednesday, 17 July and organised as part of the 44th annual conference of the Caribbean, Americas and Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), being held 14-19 July in Trinidad and Tobago.

Youth participants will debate an immigration-related topic, “Securing our borders to mitigate the effects of crime whilst striving to meet our humanitarian obligations.”

Both Porter and Robinson participated in this year’s Youth Parliament conducted by the Cayman Islands branch of the CPA on Commonwealth Day, Monday, 12 March.

The duo, who has been working to prepare for their presentations, departed Tuesday, 16 July, for Trinidad for the event that is being held in the Parliament Chamber in Port-of-Spain.

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