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Skills and academics key to fashion business

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BARBADOS MAY HAVE to consider building a larger work force with a good combination of skills and academics if it wants to compete in the global fashion industry.
Industrial development officer at the United Nations Development Organisation David Yuen-Hoi Lee made the suggestion today to participants in a seminar on The Apparel Industry and Economic Development in the Caribbean, during a video conference presentation at the Hilton hotel.
Lee said skills and education were vital in a fashion industry, as the marriage of the two had proven to be a key factor in the success of those countries which now dominate in the area of fashion production.
While Barbados had skilled people and was a highly educated country,  neither of these on its own was enough to satisfy what today’s fashion industry requires ,he said.
The two-day seminar attracted participants from Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Surinam, the CARICOM Secretariat and the OECS. (GC)

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