Vincentian Welectricity Initiative Wins GE Award
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Caribbean Energy Innovator Welectricity In Global Challenge
September 15, 2010 1 Comment
Welectricity, an innovative, award-winning social network that helps users track and reduce their electricity consumption at home – the brainchild of a Vincentian energy consultant – is Read more of this post
Bajan Global Report
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Caribbean 360
- Trinidad “emailgate” scandal causes political tit-for-tat June 18, 2013The emails purport to show that members of the Trinidad and Tobago government, including Prime Minister Persad Bissessar, were engaged in efforts to undermine the judiciary, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the media.
- Standing firm in a crisis June 18, 2013Laing, a former Bahamas finance minister, wondered whether "one of the great tragedies of leadership in our time was how unconscious it could be about the felt needs of the people being led."
- President Cameron meets Grenada and SVG Prime Ministers June 18, 2013President Cameron was accompanied by WICB Chief Executive Officer Michael Muirhead and Company Secretary Verlyn Faustin.
- OECS celebrates 32 years today June 18, 2013The Director General said cooperation in the sub-region remains solid and dismissed suggestions of the need to devalue the EC dollar.
- OECS seeking compliance with US tax law June 18, 2013FATCA seeks to combat tax evasion by US citizens and resident non-citizens with US-sourced income in Foreign Financial Institutions (FFIs) outside of the United States.
- CONCACAF president committed to regional coaching certification June 18, 2013Webb believes that education will significantly improve technical aspects that Caribbean countries lack compared to their North and Central American counterparts.
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- US Taliban move prompts Afghan ire June 19, 2013Afghanistan suspends talks on a bilateral security agreement with the US, after Washington's announcement of peace talks with the Taliban.
- Obama 'to call for nuclear cuts' June 19, 2013US President Barack Obama is to speak at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, where he is expected to call for cuts in US and Russian nuclear arsenals.
- Brazil sends force to quell protest June 19, 2013Brazil is to send a national security force to five major cities to help restore order after massive protests, the justice ministry says.
- Toxic substance in Fukushima water June 19, 2013High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope, strontium-90, have been found in groundwater at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says.
- N Korea condemns Hitler report June 19, 2013North Korea denounces a report that leader Kim Jong-un gave out copies of Adolf Hitler's memoir Mein Kampf to officials on his birthday.
- Gunbattle inside Somalia UN office June 19, 2013Gunmen open fire inside a UN office in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, following a loud explosion, witnesses say.
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