The Ministry of Commerce, Planning and Infrastructure, in partnership with the Caribbean Utilities Company, Ltd. (CUC) is launching a Home Energy Efficiency Competition with prizes valued up to CI $35,000. The Ministry of Commerce, Planning and Infrastructure is committed to creating an energy efficient future for the Cayman Islands and...
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We all have a duty to protect our oceans
Students of Barbados Combermere School Inspects Navigation Maps Abroad he NOAA Ronald H. Brown Research Ship Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott wrote, “The sea is history.” Scientific theory holds that life on earth began shortly after the formation of the world’s oceans 4.4 billion years ago and may have started...
Is There More to the Caribbean’s Single-Use Plastics Ban Than Meets the Eye?
A compilation image showing the polluted north coast of Curaçao juxtaposed with the ocean. Photo by Bastian on flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Caribbean has spoken out against single-use plastics and its inevitable environmental pollution for a long time. In 2006, for instance, one Barbados-based blog advocated for the...
Art Contest Highlights Environment Threats, Need For Recycling
Two students look on as Sandals Foundation Ambassador Ian Spencer (fifth left) presents a laptop computer and digital projector screen to teachers of the Barracks Road Primary School, winner of the Montego Bay Region of the Sandals Foundation Recycled Art Competition. Ten schools in Jamaica, Grenada and Antigua showed...
These South Sudanese Teens Built Robot to rid the World’s Oceans of over 8.3bn Tons of Plastic
Ahmed Ramzan/Gulf News From the 1950s to the 70s only a small amount of plastic waste was produced globally. By the 1990s plastic waste generation had more than tripled in two decades following a similar rise in plastic production. It rose in the early 2000s more in a single decade...