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GRENLEC Joins Its Regional Counterparts in Pledging Support for the Haitian Community |
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
The Grenada Electricity Services Ltd. (GRENLEC) has begun drumming-up resources to support the relief efforts in Haiti. Members of the GRENLEC Family have been making individual donations and Managing Director, Mr. Vernon Lawrence has indicated that the company will match the sum raised by its staffers. GRENLEC will pool resources with CARILEC members to assist Haiti.
In a release issued at the end of last week, “CARILEC, the Association of Caribbean Electric Utilities and their vending partners pledged support to the restoration efforts in Haiti in the aftermath of last Tuesday’s earthquake. Since the disaster, the CARILEC Board of Directors has been in conference calls, deliberating on the best way offer assistance to the devastated island. EDF Martinique, a CARILEC member, has already deployed two people to Haiti as part of a larger French delegation to assist in the restoration of electricity.
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
By Ban Ki-moon
The disaster in Haiti shows once again something that we, as human beings, have always known: that even amid the worst devastation, there is always hope.
I saw that for myself this week in Port au Prince. The UN suffered its single greatest loss in history. Our headquarters in the Haitian capital was a mass of crushed concrete and tangled steel. How could anyone survive, I thought? Yet moments after I departed, with a heavy heart, rescue teams pulled out a survivor – alive, after five days, buried, without food or water. I think of it as a small miracle, a sign of hope. |
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GOOD PROGRESS BEING MADE SAYS DIGICEL GROUP CEO |
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
Stores re-opening; aid, technical supplies and resources arriving in Port au Prince
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 – Kingston, Jamaica: Good progress is being made on restoring the Digicel network with over 80 per cent of cell sites now back on air, enabling customers to make and receive calls, text messages, email and BlackBerry Messenger messages.
· As the biggest and best network in Haiti, the Digicel network has remained operational throughout and Digicel now has more cell sites on air than any other provider. Coverage in the provinces continues to be good and in Port au Prince it is improving rapidly with Haitians taking advantage of the free credit of US$5 each (totaling US$10 million) that Digicel has given them. International traffic on Monday showed a 250 per cent increase on normal daily levels.
· Digicel is continuing to bring key technical people and equipment in to Haiti to ensure that the network is returned to full strength as soon as possible. In the last two days alone, six planes carrying Digicel network equipment have landed in the capital. |
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tWRF delegation meets with Prime Minister |
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
A Willie Redhead Foundation delegation of four – namely Ray Smith, Cecil Edwards, Dalton Mc Guire and Norris Mitchell met with Prime Minister Tillman Thomas on Friday January 15, 2010 to obtain clarity on a number of points relating to the Zublin’s Renaissance Project for the City of St. George.
The Foundation’s raison d’être, whose original watchword was “ For the preservation and urban renewal of St. George’s”, was subsequently changed to” For the preservation and renewal of the National Heritage of Grenada” , and having pursued this mandate in one form or another over the past 15 years, felt that it is in a strategic position to make a significant contribution to the ongoing debate as to the pros and cons of the proposed project.
In this regard, the Foundation’s prime concern at this stage is the state of the urbanization of our Capital City, and is therefore in the process of gathering all the relevant facts relating to the City as a whole and the project in particular, before making an in depth analytical presentation to the public. |
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NAWASA Chooses NorthStar CIS |
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
NorthStar Utilities expands presence in Caribbean with selection by National Water and Sewerage Authority (NAWASA) OTTAWA, ON-14 January 2010- NorthStar Utilities Solutions, a division of Harris Computer Systems, announced today that National Water and Sewerage Authority (NAWASA), located in St. Georges, Grenada, West Indies, has chosen NorthStar CIS for providing its customers superior customer relations management and utility billing. The NAWASA CIS project implementation includes NorthStar CIS, Executive Information System, eDocs and Reports AnyWhere. |
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DIGICEL CONCERNED AT CRITICAL SITUATION AT HAITI AIRPORT |
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
Restoration of the country’s communication network hampered by bottleneck at airport
Friday, January 15th, 2010: As Digicel continues to work around the clock to restore vital communications in Haiti, the company today expressed grave concern that flights carrying the necessary experts and equipment are not able to land at Haiti’s international airport.
A fully operational communications network is of critical importance to the relief efforts that are currently underway and, to date, four flights carrying Digicel technicians and equipment have been turned away from the airport in Port-au-Prince.
Digicel Chairman, Denis O’Brien, said: “We have been in contact with the United Nations and numerous NGOs who are telling us that restoring Haiti’s communications network is a vital first step in this relief effort. It is critical that our planes carrying all the necessary equipment and technicians be allowed to land in Haiti.” |
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