{"id":51894,"date":"2011-12-31T13:31:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=51894"},"modified":"2011-12-31T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:31:15","slug":"the-caribbean-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/regional\/the-caribbean-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caribbean Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caribbean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51895\" title=\"caribbean\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caribbean.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caribbean.jpg 269w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caribbean-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a>For the Caribbean, it was the Year of the Vote. By year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the Year of Energy \u2013 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 \u2013 from geothermal in Nevis and Dominica to wind farms like Jamaica\u2019s, at Wigton to solar programmes like those in St Kitts and the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribjournal.com\/2011\/12\/29\/caribbean-journal-looks-at-the-caribbean-year-in-review\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the Caribbean, it was the Year of the Vote. 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