Minister for Education Youth Affairs and Sports Honourable Sharie de Castro is featured at the beginning of a two-day ‘Meaningful Youth Engagement Workshop’. The workshop marks the beginning of a series of stakeholder consultations with youth, organisations, and groups that are forward facing with the youth of the Virgin Islands. Other officials attended the workshop including Director of Youth Affairs and Sports Mrs. Brenda Lettsome-Tye, Secretary General for the BVI National Commission for UNESCO, Dr. Allison Flax-Archer and Programme Specialist for Social and Human Sciences for UNESCO, Mrs. Paula Istruriz Cavero. The feedback gathered throughout the stakeholder consultation phase will be used to ensure that young persons play a key role in the revision of the National Youth Policy.