Glaser’s advice: “Wait—unless you want to pay the extra money—or build it yourself. It will be at least three to five years before they are readily available.” After this brief waiting period, while efficient designs are refined and mass production begins to lower costs, solar-heated and -cooled apartments apart should become widely accepted. Farmers and [...]
Before these mineral deposits were exploited Trinidad’s wealth lay in agriculture; and sugar, citrus fruits, coconuts and cocoa are still exported. The Pioneer Industries Ordinance has been as fruitful in Trinidad as the similar legislation in Jamaica. Tax exemptions and free importation of plant and raw materials have attracted capital from the United States, Canada, [...]
Jamaica is further from Trinidad than London is from Rome, and the little islands delightfully `strung like a necklace of jewels across the throat of the Caribbean’ are inconveniently small from an economic point of view. With the exception of the big three, Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados, populations range from 88,000 in Grenada to [...]