A LOCAL school was yesterday awarded a top environmental honour – a Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation green flag – in recognition for its commitment to preserving the environment.
St Andrew’s School was recognised by BREEF during a special assembly to close out their Earth Day festivities.
To be awarded the first green flag in New Providence, [...]
Green Award For School
April 23rd, 2013 
Admin: Donna Digicel Officially Opens Regional Headquarters in Downtown Kingston
March 21st, 2013 Admin: Donna In what could prove to be a significant lift for Jamaica’s capital, Digicel has officially opened its new regional headquarters in downtown Kingston.
The property will house more than 1300 employees for both its group and Jamaica operations.
The company, which launched in Jamaica in 2011, previously operated in two separate offices in New Kingston.
“In looking where [...]
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January 5th, 2013 Admin: Donna SEAFORTH, St Thomas: EVERY DAY we are warned and at times chided for our mismanagement of the environment. However, Ecowells, the Environmental Division of Canco Limited, is recognised for its social impact and innovative ideas to help reduce the company’s negative impact on the environment.
Through research aided by the Scientific Research Council and the University [...]
Jamaicans win regional energy contest
August 24th, 2012 Admin: Donna Friday, August 24, 2012
THREE Jamaican companies were part of a team of eight winners of the Caribbean-wide 2012 IDEAS Energy Innovation contest. They are Echos Consulting, which presented a proposal called Caribshare Biogas; The Family Garden, which proposed a project on community hydroponics farming with solar energy; and Caribbean ESCO Ltd, which proposed creating an [...]
Posted in Belize, Carbon Market, Environmental Management, Jamaica, Other Opportunity, Success Stories, Suriname Comments OffLocal institutions get ‘Powerwise’
August 20th, 2012 Admin: Donna Edmond Campbell, Senior Staff Reporter
WITH THE frequent spike in the cost of oil on the international market and its crushing impact on the productive sector – and by extension consumers in developing states, like Jamaica – one local company believes the age-old formula of applying energy conservation measures combined with contemporary technology can, in fact, change [...]
Hotel provides inside look at life in the dominican countryside
August 13th, 2012 Admin: Donna SANTO DOMINGO — It is not easy for urban residents to imagine life in rural Dominican Republic. It is even much more difficult for them to imagine what it is like to tend to a Dominican vegetable garden, milk cows or sleep in a wooden cabin with a thatch roof.
Although these situations can be easily [...]
33 schools get awards in PCJ energy competition
June 19th, 2012 Admin: Donna STUDENTS from 33 primary and high schools received close to $1 million in prizes at the awards ceremony for the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica’s (PCJ) Energy Conservation Incentive Programme for Schools.
The programme, which ran throughout the 2011-2012 school year, involved close to 1,000 students and 75 teachers from 50 schools islandwide. Arising out of the [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Jamaica, Library, News, Other Opportunity, Success Stories Comments Off‘Sandals leader in field of sustainable practices’
May 30th, 2012 Admin: Donna Hotel chain certified platinum by EarthCheck
ONE year after launching Sandals Earthguard across the luxury resort chain, Sandals Resorts International (SRI) is reporting that it has begun to realise a reduction in the company’s environmental footprint.
The hotel, owned by Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, says it has also become more operationally efficient and has increased benefits to its [...]
Energy and Providence
May 8th, 2012 Admin: Donna New Providence Bahamas are very fortunate to have a relatively well developed infrastructure; testimony at least that good planning and foresight [as even its name suggests] of future energy needs pays off. But what of the future? even a well managed Commonwealth like Bahamas is troubled to keep pace with the demand for energy, the [...]
Posted in Bahamas, Energy Efficiency, Library, News, Success Stories, Training Opportunity Comments OffArtificial reefs strengthening Montserrat’s marine ecosystem
April 30th, 2012 Admin: Donna BRADES, Montserrat – A project to build artificial reefs is now well into its second phase and making a difference to Montserrat’s marine ecosystem.
The Montserrat Reef Project was initiated by Andrew Myers and Emmy Aston, who currently operate Scuba Montserrat and was funded during the second round of the Montserrat Tourism Board’s Tourism Challenge Fund. [...]
