Testing of the operating systems at Bermuda’s new airport terminal is due to start in the coming weeks.

Construction of the $250 million facility is on the verge of completion, with restaurant, bar and store owners about to start fitting out their spaces.

The terminal had been on schedule to open this summer, until the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Stringent health and safety measures were introduced and the site was shut down during the April lockdown.

A report by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) charts a course for a massive infrastructure transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean through gains in efficiency, use of digital technologies, and a focus on quality and affordability of consumer services rather than structures.

The IDB has also advised that to close its infrastructure gap, Latin America and the Caribbean needs more than investment in hard assets. #Tech #LAC

Jamaica wants to develop over 500 megawatts of new energy projects generated mostly but not exclusively from nature, with plans to get investors to bid on a portion of that capacity, starting early next year.

“It is envisioned that competition will bring the price of electricity down, while bringing the best technologies into the energy sector,” said Minister of Science, Energy & Technology Fayval Williams in a webinar discussion on ‘Renewable Energy Infrastructure Investment Opportunities’ on Thursday.

Guyana’s first Infectious Disease Hospital, which is currently being constructed at the former Ocean View Hotel at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, is expected to be fully operational by next month.

The former hotel was chosen by the government to be transformed and used as a dedicated facility for the treatment, isolation and quarantine of COVID-19 patients and to handle any other infectious disease outbreak in the country in the future. #GY

Dominican Republic’s President Danilo Medina inaugurated the Navarrete-Puerto Plata highway, in that province, Wednesday afternoon, in a ceremony where he also cut the ribbon on seven other road works, six of them in the Northwest.

The inauguration also included the Puerto Plata-Sosúa-Cabarete highway and the Manolo Tavárez Justo road, from Montecristi to Dajabón. #Transport #DO

Secretary of Finance and the Economy Joel Jack said the THA “will continue in our efforts” to build a new Scarborough Secondary School in the next fiscal year. Jack made the promise on Monday morning as he read the THA’s budget presentation for 2020/2021.

Jack said the project is expected to cost $200 million. He said a site has been identified and a geotechnical survey will be conducted. The Scarborough Secondary School has been in a state of disrepair for some time and students last year protested conditions and called for the construction of a new school. #Education #EduCaribbean #TT

Trinidad’s PRIME MINISTER announced two projects between government and local energy companies that will provide the country with clean energy at a cost on par with current electricity output.

In a feature address at the Energy Chamber’s conference held virtually on Wednesday, Dr Rowley announced that BP and Shell will assist government in projects to produce a large amount of energy capable of powering the country in the same way natural gas has been able to. #RE #Energy #TT

Hundreds of premature infants and high-risk pregnant women will have improved quality healthcare with the official opening of the official 22 million Euro high-dependency units (HDUs) at the Spanish Town Hospital.

It is the third of four high-dependency units now in operation and is made possible through the Programme for the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC), with donor assistance from the European Union (EU). #JM