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  • Energy costs in the Caribbean

    CARIBBEAN, 2014/03/05 The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says Caribbean finance ministers have expressed concern about the high energy costs in the Caribbean that “constrain living standards and increase.” The region’s finance and planning ministers voiced their concern here at the just-concluded Third Annual Conference of the IDB’s Caribbean Governors. The IDB said it recently launched the Caribbean Energy Initiative, “which seeks to create a regional energy market that creates sufficient critical mass to enable nations to take chance of the reduction in the cost of natural gas and its increased supply.”

  • The Angolan Energy Secretary of National, Joaquim Ventura

    ANGOLA, 2013/07/13 The Angolan Energy Secretary of National, Joaquim Ventura, Wednesday began a working visit to Cuba, aimed at reinforcing the cooperation between the two nations in the field of energy, PANA learnt from a communiqué issued Thursday by the Angolan Energy and Water ministry. According to the communiqué, Ventura has by presently met with the Cuban Minister of Energy and Mining, Alfredo Lopez, with whom he discussed the existing agreement between the two States on energy.

  • Electricity fails in Havana 2012-09-14

    CUBA, 2012/09/14 Power failed in Cuba's capital Sunday night, plunging most of the city and some of its suburbs into darkness. Other  cities far from Havana as well had outages, although for only brief spans. There was no immediate word on what caused the blackout, which hit a little after 8 p.m. among the nightly news on national television and was still out extra than an hour later.
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