The Caribbean Year in Review

For the Caribbean, it was the Year of the Vote. By year’s end, five countries, Jamaica, Guyana, St Lucia and Haiti and the British Virgin Islands, will have chosen new leadership, with Jamaicans headed to the polls on Thursday.

It was also the Year of Energy – with two countries, the Bahamas and Guyana, pursuing what could prove to be major offshore oil finds, and islands across the region making concerted efforts to look to alternative energy sources – from geothermal in Nevis and Dominica to wind farms like Jamaica’s, at Wigton to solar programmes like those in St Kitts and the Bahamas.

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4 Comments

  1. Belle beff
    December 31, 2011

    We will never put things straight in our state with hate.

  2. da
    December 31, 2011

    Dominica…. geothermal…i thought it was selling of passports…hmmmmmm

    • December 31, 2011

      its people like you who give Dominica a bad name.You must stop it.

      • da
        December 31, 2011

        go take a bath and drink the water..hypocrite

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