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Young peo­ple are wel­com­ing the move by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to in­crease the le­gal age lim­it for al­co­hol con­sump­tion from 18 to 21 and for gam­bling and us­ing mar­i­jua­na to age 25.

How­ev­er, they are ques­tion­ing what sup­port mea­sures will be tak­en.

Out­side the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus yes­ter­day, stu­dent Ruth Thomp­son, 20, ad­mit­ted she was sur­prised by the an­nounce­ment but be­lieves the move will ben­e­fit the younger gen­er­a­tion.