ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to examine, within the limitations imposed by secondary data, the existing and prospective employment opportunities against the backdrop of the private and public investments in training and education in the region. Endemic structural unemployment, the mismatch between skills and employment opportunities and the uncompetitiveness of export industries have characterized the last two decades in the evolution of Commonwealth Caribbean economies. The presumed large presence of people from the Commonwealth Caribbean among the undocumented migrants in the United States has prompted much attention at the official level in identifying strategies that would slow the exodus from and even reverse the flows to the region. The educational preparation of the labor force in the Commonwealth Caribbean has displayed a substantial improvement according to census data. Migration becomes the natural response of laborers seeking a better standard of living. The former refers to the channels of communication—libraries, information centers and networks, news media, research laboratories and centers.
