After a career of writing field guides for adults, Nova Scotian Jeffrey C. Domm, has released his first book especially for children or other beginner bird-watchers.
One of the men tasked with bringing Barbados’ crime situation under control is “beyond confident” about the security measures at the Bridgetown Port.Following a tour of the facility this morning, Minister of State in the Office of the Attorney General with responsibility for Crime Prevention, Corey Lane said he was in awe at the high level of security in place at the island’s main seaport.“I am very impressed with the level of security we have right around. I think there has been a major, major difference between what we hear on the street, what we hear sometimes on the airwaves and what I have seen here.“I am very happy to see that we have 100 per cent scanning, we have air coverage of the port and beyond, we have underwater coverage. I think that anybody thinking about doing crime has to think twice when they think about Barbados,” Lane said.
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January 23, 2021
The Barbados Port Inc’s new multi-million-dollar waste-to-energy incinerator is in no way similar to the failed Cahill project.
That assurance has come from the port’s Divisional Manager, Corporate Development and Strategy, Captain Karl Branch, who has maintained that the proposed US$20 million initiative being funded by the Port is nothing like the $700 million plasma gasification project which never got off the ground.
Speaking during a townhall meeting today entitled,
Turning Up the Heat on Waste, Branch pointed out that there were major differences between the two waste-to-energy projects.
“There are several differences but the main two differences would be the technology and the scale. The Cahill project was a plasma gasification type project so it’s a completely different technology from incineration. Incineration is more basic, more robust. You superheat the entry into the incinerator and ensure its complete destruction while plasma gas