The Conference room on the third floor could barely hold the two dozen, mostly Caribbean media representatives who converged at the luxurious Kimberly Hotel to cover GraceKennedy and Western Union for the third annual Caribbean Diaspora Forum, Media Breakfast.
WaterAid Liberia and Sierra Leone in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Liberia is to provide four health centers in Montserrado County with improved water system under its “WASH in Health Facility Project”.
The City of Cape Town, Rand Water, the V&A Waterfront, the outgoing CEO of NERSA Phindile Baleni and several exciting power projects on the continent are just some of the finalists that have been announced for the African Utility Week Industry Awards. Africa’s leading utility, energy and water professionals and projects will be honoured again at the annual African Utility Week and Clean Power Africa that is taking place in Cape Town from 12-14 May.
Four Nigerian men are among the eight people executed in Indonesia along with one man from Brazil, one Indonesian and two Australians believed to be ring leaders of the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring. A woman from the Philippines and a Frenchman were temporarily reprieved.
Last week in Bong County, the National Technical Coordinating Unit (NTCU) – responsible for setting Liberia’s national WASH guidelines – verified 29 new communities as Open Defecation Free (ODF). “What was originally just a short-term basic hygiene promotion has become another successful Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) project,” said Global Communities former Country Director Piet deVries to his country staff.