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Police receive ‘bucket truck’ under Taiwan-funded Video Analytics project
Searchlight
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August 14, 2025
TAIWAN’S AMBASSADOR TO SVG, Fiona Fan (left) and the Commissioner of Police, Enville Williams (right) shake hands in front of the ‘bucket truck’ The exhibition and hand over ceremony for a bucket truck that marked the end-of-phase for the...
Vincentian trio receives UK Chevening Scholarships
St. Vincent Times
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August 6, 2025
Three Vincentians Awarded UK Chevening Scholarships St Vincentian nationals Tevisha James, Joshika Hall, and Reenah Samuel have been awarded Chevening Scholarships by the UK government. They will join scholars from Barbados and the Eastern...
Field-tested hurricane survival strategies for solar
pv-magazine
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August 12, 2025
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has published “Solar Under Storm III,” analyzing hurricane impacts on solar farms in the Caribbean after Hurricane Beryl and identifying key failure modes and risk-mitigation measures. August 12, 2025 John Fitzgerald...
Don’t you dare blame workers – SWWTU head responds to complaints about Port of Spain port
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 15, 2025
News Ryan Hamilton-Davis 7 Hrs Ago A view of the Port of Port of Spain. - File photo SEAMEN and Waterfront Workers Trade Union (SWWTU) President General Michael Annisette took Downtown Owners and Merchant’s Association (DOMA) president Gregory...
VINLEC launches Smart Meter Project
Searchlight
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August 15, 2025
THE Smart Meter Project is a significant step towards. (INSET) Ricky Wright. modernising electricity service and delivering even better service to all customers – Ricky Wright, Manager, Engineering at VINLEC. Approximately 50,000 Vincentian...
OAS Funds US$125,000 CED Climate Change Project targeting Women
Searchlight
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August 14, 2025
L-R: CED General Manager, Ronette Lewis; CED Training and Education Officer, Keisha Phillips; Director of Economic Planning, Ricardo Frederick; and Administrative Technician to the OAS SVG Office, Diana Browne, following the signing of the...
The Caribbean Fight to Dismantle Anti-LGBTQI+ Colonial Laws
Havana Times
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August 14, 2025
St Lucia from the margins to the courts Credit: Stella_E/Getty Images By Ines M. Pousadela (IPS) HAVANA TIMES – When Kenita Placide co-founded United and Strong, St Lucia’s first LGBTQI+ organisation in 2001, death threats were routine. Over the...
U.S. Embassy Names Eastern Caribbean Youth Ambassadors for 2025
Antigua.News
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August 9, 2025
St. Kitts and Nevis’ ambassador, 17-year-old Zyon Harding of Nevis Sixth Form College, is known for his involvement in media and environmental projects. From St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 16-year-old Christel Sutherland attends Girls’ High...
OAS funds $125k CED climate action project in SVG
St. Vincent Times
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August 14, 2025
OAS Funds US$125,000 CED Climate Change Project The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Development Cooperation Fund (DCF), has approved a US$125,000 (XCD$308,000) project for the Centre for Enterprise Development (CED) that focuses...
Work advances on CARICOM Industrial Policy
Win Media SKN
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August 14, 2025
Consultations with key stakeholders have begun across the Region to finalise the CARICOM Industrial Policy and Strategy in time for approval by Ministers of Trade later this year. Suriname, which holds responsibility for the Industrial Policy in...
From destruction to development: Why Barbados needs a smarter approach to cannabis
Barbados Today
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August 14, 2025
89 From destruction to development: Why Barbados needs a smarter approach to cannabis Last week, The Barbados Police Service destroyed nearly 6 000 kilogrammes of illegal drugs valued at $66 million. The tightly secured disposal, described by...
The new Caribbean compact
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 14, 2025
Business Newsday 11 Hrs Ago Vashti Guyadeen, CEO, TT Chamber. - Vashti Guyadeen In this edition of the TT Chamber’s column, we feature a compelling piece by chamber CEO Vashti Guyadeen, introducing Edition One of our 2025 Contact Business...
2.37M aviation workers needed by 2044
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Brent Pinheiro brent.pinheiro@guardian.co.tt Global air travel demand continues to outpace economic growth, and US aerospace company Boeing forecasts the commercial aviation sector will need 2,370,000 qualified personnel to...
Work CARICOM industrial strategy progressing
Dominica News Online
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August 13, 2025
Dominica News Online - Wednesday, August 13th, 2025 at 11:00 AM Regional consultations with principal stakeholders have commenced to finalize the CARICOM Industrial Policy and Strategy, aiming for approval by Trade Ministers later this year. A...
Taiwan donates bucket truck to police under intelligent video project
I Witness News
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August 13, 2025
The end-of-phase exhibition for the Taiwan-financed Enhancing Public Safety with Intelligent Video Analytics Project and the handover ceremony for a bucket truck took place on Friday at the Questelles Police Station. The Enhancing Public Safety...
NRRP road rehabilitation in Keartons near completion
St. Vincent Times
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August 13, 2025
Final Touches Underway on Keartons Community Roads The upgrades to the Keartons Community Roads are entering their final stage, bringing safer, more durable, and better-connected routes to residents and motorists. The works form part of the...
Tribute to a Master Caribbean Builder!
The Voice
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August 9, 2025
Chronicles of a Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet In the two decades I’ve known Rayneau Gajadhar, he’s never ceased to amaze everyone else. Whether by what he says or does, he evokes responses that range from bewilderment to surprise,...
SLCTVET Equips 35 Trainers in Electric Vehicle Repair
The Voice
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August 13, 2025
Participants in the 2025 Level 4 Electric Vehicle Training [Photo credit: SLCTVET]Saint Lucian automotive practitioners, along with their counterparts from across the Eastern Caribbean, are now fully prepared to deliver advanced training and...
CARICOM holding consultations on CIPS
CNC 3
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August 13, 2025
The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Wednesday said that consultations with key stakeholders have begun across the region to finalise the CARICOM Industrial Policy and Strategy (CIPS) expected to be approved regional trade...
How resilient is solar to hurricanes? ‘We have more to learn’
PV Tech
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August 6, 2025
One of the central paradoxes of solar and other clean energy technologies is that they are increasingly at risk from the effects of the climate breakdown they are intended to avert. Increasingly violent storms and other natural catastrophe events...